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In article <93...@asylum.SF.CA.US> karl@asylum.UUCP (Karl Auerbach) writes:
}The best set of blinkin' lights I ever saw on a computer was on an
}old SAGE machine, the Q32 (or was it the Q7?) -- the console was about
}15 feet long, 8 feet high and covered with switches, dials, and what-nots.
}
}I heard that a movie company bought one when the machines were scrapped.
}
}Other than that one, the IBM 360/91 had great lights.

My blinkenlights story concerns a machine at the Rockwell Avionics
Development Lab in Downey, CA. (Alas, 6 years of bit rot have deleted its
name from my head).  It was an oddball device used to simulate other
computer systems.  I think it must have had a lot of registers and an LED
for every bit in every one of them.  Using the LEDs as a banner sign was a
popular passtime.

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