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In article <13...@fluke.COM> ku...@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth) writes:

   > Much the same was true in WarGames when the CRAY and VAX machines they took
   > pictures of were so "blank" they built this machine with many lights as
   > the machine that did all of the work.

   Untrue.  The computer seen in the opening scene of War Games was the
   unmodified DEC KL-10 Decsystem 10 at the Locke Computer Center (not the
   Acedemic Computer Center, the one in Health Sciences) at the University of
   Washington in Seattle.  I have been in the Locke center, and viewed the
   KL-10, and it is covered with stupid blinky-lights, mostly having to do with
   I/O processors as far as I could tell.  Now there's a computer that REALLY
   LOOKS like a computer.

Sorry, the KL-10 does *NOT* have lights - it has a PDP-11 which has a few
lights, but that is it. (Well, OK, a few of the power supplys have little
"breaker-tripped" lights, and it does have an "on" light, and an "off"
light - a "fault" light actually). It definitely positively is not covered
with stupid blinky-lights. It is a very dull-and-boring-looking machine.
Lots of fun to play with, but boring looking.

You must be thinking of a KI-10 (yeah, that machine looked like a computer
is supposed to look!), or possibly a KA-10.

Or possibly outboard memory boxes, or channel controllers, or the like...

					-RDH