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

[DaveG]

On Nov 13, 4:56 pm, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 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

We had a 9000.  It was air cooled.