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In article <90...@cbmvax.commodore.com>, jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup) writes:
>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.

Fat Albert was a 360/50 in use at RPI from ~1964 (when it was the
ultra high end of university computing) until ~1975 (when it wasn't).
Now you could view it as all the computing power of an Amiga (well,
not as much memory), but split between 5000 users.  I had short
fortran batch jobs literally take 2 weeks to perculate through the
queue.

Between Fat Albert and Myron was Godot (waiting for), a 360/67 purchased
as an interim machine.

> (memory is fuzzy)  Myron once ran for "meanest man on campus";

Myrons name itself is the stuff of scandals.  The name was chosen by a 
"penny a vote" election (proceeds to benifit the campus ACM or something like 
that).  The people pushing the Myron name were also in on administering
the contest, and knew the running tally (which wasn't really public knowledge).
They made a last minute buyout of the election, knowing exactly how much
it would take.

-don perley


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