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

[R.A.Omond]

DaveG wrote:
> 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.

Yet another likewise.  Ours was the ex-benchmark system that DEC
had in Valbonne - VAX 9000-420 + 2 vector processors.

Power-up used to sound like a jumbo jet ;-)