>Well my computer room at work was originally designed to house our
>DECsystem-10 (long departed) and had red carpeted floor tiles (I assume to
>contrast against the blue of the -10) and the bright orange/yellow chairs
>(the '70s have a lot to answer for, along with my boss who chose the
>colours). The carpet was removed sometime later and replaced with vynal
>tiles as DEC FS claimed the dust from the carpets was causing head crashes
>on the RP05s
The Honeywell DPS-8 I worked on from 1990-93 had red carpeted floor tiles
also. They'd probably had the same tiles since the early 70's. That was
one _EVIL_ looking tile puller :^)
Zane
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Received on Sat Apr 03 1999 - 22:28:22 BST