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From: je... Randell Jesup
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1989 11:09
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1989 11:09
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In article <11212.484...@mts.rpi.edu> Greg_d...@mts.rpi.edu (Commander Krugannal) writes:
> hear various names for computers. Here at RPI, we have had
> several computers. The first, (sorry not sure what it was)
> was actually 4 hung together. This of course was known as
> "Bob&? and Ted&Alice" ( I believe, I am much to young to have
A 360 of some sort.
> (I believe, I may have left one out), was a large behometh known
> as "Fat Albert". This I believe was a IBM 3033. The heat it
Fat Albert was a 370/?168?. It was the last to live in the bottom
floor of the Math building. The 3033 was called Myron, and ran from ~1979
until ~1984. (memory is fuzzy) Myron once ran for "meanest man on campus";
a contest held every other year in the spring. It's high priest (Tamar
Wexler) sacrificed an HP calculator (or TI) in front of the Chapel entrance.
Myron was also a registered member of the Society for Creative Anachronism
(SCA), under the name "Myron Van Rensselaer".
> produced was used to heat the building in which it was housed.
True.
> Also, how many places have computer center in a converted chapel,
> complete with stained glass windows?
Quite a pretty place, also quite ironic.
--
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!jesup From: je...@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: (none) Message-ID: <9076@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 18 Dec 89 11:09:39 GMT References: <11212.484.forumexp@mts.rpi.edu> Reply-To: je...@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 32 Posted: Mon Dec 18 12:09:39 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit