Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!bhyde From: bhyde@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Touch-Tone Pads (with 'sidebar' abou - (nf) Message-ID: <154@inmet.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Jul-83 18:49:30 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.154 Posted: Thu Jul 7 18:49:30 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Jul-83 13:27:52 EDT Lines: 19 #R:vortex:-6500:inmet:6400015:000:923 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.