On Sat, 2025-10-18 at 10:31 -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Sat, 18 Oct 2025, Adrian Godwin via cctalk wrote:
Surely those spinning mechanisms in Colossus rely
somewhat on oil. Though I
haven't noticed it spraying a skidmark across the walls.
The 1401 room at the college (55+ years ago) always seemed to have a
"burnt oil" smell. But, that might have been mostly unskilled
maintenance of the EAM equipment. That smell is absent from the
[working!] 1401 at CHM
But one 1403 at CHM does have a hydraulic fluid leak.