On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 vance_at_neurotica.com wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Brian Chase wrote:
> > > I am convinced that the rumor of Scandanavian -10s is either simply not
> > > true, or blown out of proportion. The group mentioned above does indeed
> > > have a DEC-20 of some sort, but no KA10s or KI10s as the rumor states.
> > >
> > > This rumor has been circulating for years. Unless someone gives me
> > > *concrete* evidence, I have to doubt the existence of the mythical -10s.
> >
> > Well, it's only a DECSYSTEM-2065, but it's in Norway.
> > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/1998/09/15/0001.html
>
> Only a DECSYSTEM-2065!?
>
> Only!
:-)
Oh yeah, and I'd missed some of the pictures of the Stacken
systems in Sweden:
http://www.stacken.kth.se/~thn/FullScale/f3-1.jpg
http://www.stacken.kth.se/~thn/FullScale/f3-2.jpg
http://www.stacken.kth.se/~thn/FullScale/f3-3.jpg (mailed earlier)
I don't know, given the two separate systems shown there, and the
DECSYSTEM-2065 in Norway, it seems to me like there might be some
substance to these Scandanavian PDP-10 rumors.
I hear hydroelectric power is relatively inexpensive; Norway and Sweden
(maybe Finland too?) have certain advantages when running large systems
in regard to the power being fairly cheap. At least that's what I've
been told by people I know from Sweden and Norway.
-brian.
Received on Wed Jan 15 2003 - 18:41:00 GMT
