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Subject: Re: Touch-Tone Pads (with 'sidebar' abou - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 7-Jul-83 18:49:30 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  7 18:49:30 1983
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inmet!bhyde    Jul  1 22:16:00 1983

About 12 years ago, at NYU, I heard that story about what I presume was
the same machine.  About the same time I heard two other stories.

The precursor of that machine was rumored to have had an air lock on
the cpu room door since it was very sensitive to temp. changes.

The last story was about the 1100 series from univac,  Univac had
estimated a tiny market for the machine but then ibm canceled their 36
bit line.  This left univac in a bind.  You see they had these machines
they had sold to the goverment which at the time had a clause in the
standard contract that required a refund of any future price decreases.  One
presumes the goverment noticed they were always getting stuck paying
for the develoment of esoteric super computers.  Well univac's solution
was the 1106, with the clock turned down 40 percent.  Funny thing was
that if you disconnected this wire near the back panel the thing would
run faster.