1990 Era computer room

william degnan billdegnan at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 16:28:26 CDT 2015


It could be a bunch of terminal multiplexers or communications controllers,
does not even have to be CPU's...

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:

> On 2015-Jun-23, at 12:50 PM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> > hp drives  yes...
> > ...
> >
> > OK  another odd thing - note tapes but  lack of tape   drives.
> >
> > If  only we  could see what was in the rest of the   room!
>
> I think those are all disk cartridges, rather than tapes.
>
> I was trying to guess what the blurred manufacturer name on the racks
> might be and find matching pics on the web but no luck so far.
> Looks like one capital letter followed by a number of half-height letters.
>
> I find it odd that the while the drives are mid-70s+, the processor panels
> look like something from the late-60s or even earlier.
>
>


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