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From: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
To: Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Old mainframe I/O speed (was: core)
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 09:03:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABH=_VTOZbdzfXrYYbb13XG5EZTxXXYDTGUaWLPRrWYx5MBuzA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180624031454.4F9484422F@lignose.oclsc.org>

On 6/23/18, Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org> wrote:
> Ron Minnich:
>
>   Jon Hall used to love telling the story of the VAX backplane with the
> glue
>   in the board slots, which clever customers managed to damage and have
>   repaired with a non-glued-up backplane.

That was the VAXstation-11/RC.  Marketing wanted a VAXstation with
fewer backplane slots that it could sell at a cheaper price.  Rather
than manufacture a different board, they just filled the extra
backplane slots with glue to render them unusable.  "RC" officially
stood for "restricted configuration", but we in Engineering called it
"resin caulked".

-Paul W.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-24 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-24  3:14 Norman Wilson
2018-06-24 13:03 ` Paul Winalski [this message]
2018-06-24 14:41   ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-06-24 15:47     ` Arthur Krewat
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-06-24 18:49 Norman Wilson
2018-06-24 18:49 Norman Wilson
     [not found] <mailman.1.1529690481.3725.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2018-06-23 10:32 ` Johnny Billquist
2018-06-23 11:39   ` Clem cole
2018-06-24  7:50   ` Mutiny
2018-06-27 13:59     ` Clem Cole
2018-06-22 13:11 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-22 17:49 ` Erik E. Fair
2018-06-15 15:25 [TUHS] core Noel Chiappa
2018-06-15 23:05 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-15 23:22   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-06-16  6:36     ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-16 19:07       ` Clem Cole
2018-06-18  9:25         ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-19 20:45           ` Peter Jeremy
2018-06-19 22:55             ` David Arnold
2018-06-20  5:04               ` Peter Jeremy
2018-06-20  5:41                 ` Warner Losh
2018-06-20  8:10                   ` [TUHS] Old mainframe I/O speed (was: core) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-06-20 16:33                     ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-21  3:05                       ` Peter Jeremy
2018-06-21 14:00                         ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-21 14:49                           ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-06-21 20:39                             ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-22  5:32                               ` Erik E. Fair
2018-06-22 13:32                                 ` Clem Cole
2018-06-23  6:08                             ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-23 17:02                               ` ron minnich

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