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boe...@sctc.com (Earl Boebert) writes:

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>Did anybody save a GIER?  Now there was a historic system!

If you mean the Danish machine (the one with the, errhhm, 9 pass ALGOL
compiler to execute in 2KWords of core), YES YES YES.

The Danish GIER Club has a lot of these systems (6 or 7, I've heard).
Some of them should actually be in working order.

At the Danish Technical University, the students Electronics Club
has the only functional RC4000 (successor to GIER (?)) in existence.

Of course, machines as these are really very easy to maintain. You have
the diagrams, some old wirings bords, and *voila*, you can build any piece
that goes wrong, from scratch. We're currently trying to get the matrix
computation unit made for the Danish Institute of Meteorology for use on
the RC4000 up and running. Tough, since we have to re-wrap the 40 
odd cards needed for the interface.... .

Fortunately, disks and tape units are farily standard, so we simply hook in
one of the spare units when anything goes wrong.. .

	Jens
Jens Tingleff MSc EE, Institute of Computer Science, Copenhagen University
Snail mail: DIKU Universitetsparken 1 DK2100 KBH O
"It never runs around here; it just comes crashing down"
	apologies to  Dire Straits