[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Neil Rieck]

On Nov 13, 12:28 pm, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
>
> > We knew it was water-cooled when we bought two, because the computer room had
> > to be modified to accomodate water-cooled equipment.
>
>    That's odd, we had a 9000 and I've seen several others, and every one
>    I've seen was air cooled.  Could yours have been a field test?
>

The book ("DEC is Dead, Long Live DEC") said that the initial design
involved water cooled ECL (which is why it was code named Aquarius)
but production machines were air cooled.

NSR