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From: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes)
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Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
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Date: 11 Feb 89 18:48:17 GMT
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In article <391@prles2.UUCP> laverman@prismab.prl.philips.nl (Bert Laverman) writes:
>
>At the Technical University of Twente (The Netherlands),
>the computer centre had a big blue colored PDP-10, and an
>orange colored PDP-20.

Some years ago I was invited to dinner by a young lady.  Her housemate
invited a guy who was an engineer for Amdahl.  He told me that one of
the first Amdahl shipments was to Texas A&M University.  The Amdahl
machines were painted bright orange, which is the color of - gasp -
University of Texas, A&Ms ancient rival.  So they had to make a very
quick maroon paint job.
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