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Re: REMINDER: Leap Second
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barney Wolff)
Mon Jan 26 03:38:43 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 03:36:41 -0500
From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
To: TR Shaw <tshaw@oitc.com>
In-Reply-To: <ECD8DA3C-8B47-4E94-A0DF-FAED28C220BC@oitc.com>
Cc: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>, nanog@nanog.org
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On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 06:42:51PM -0500, TR Shaw wrote:
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> That made the transformers smaller/cooler and more efficient. I seem to remember a 195 as well but maybe it is just CRS.
Google says the 360/195 did exist. But my baby was the 360/95,
where the first megabyte of memory was flat-film at 60ns, which
made it faster than the 195 for some things. It was incredibly
expensive to build - we heard rumors of $30 million in 1967 dollars,
and sold to NASA at a huge loss, which is why there were only two
built. I used to amuse myself by climbing into the flats memory
cabinet, and was amused again some years later when I could have
ingested a megabyte without harm. Ours sat directly above Tom's
Restaurant, of Seinfeld fame. Very early climate modeling was done
on that machine, along with a lot of astrophysics.
