On Friday, 5 July 2019 12:00:53 UTC+1, Bob Eager wrote:
The first mainframe I saw was a Honeywell
The conservator was *very* surprised when I first handled it, as I said:
"This is the first time I've touched this in 44 years".
Yes, my research had shown that it was the ACTUAL SAME ONE!

It's the 21st century equivalent of old ladies reminiscing about mangles in dementia therapy.

the one I saw was at Aber Uni on an educational visit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD

The tech pulled out one of the boards and showed us where a resistor (or transistor?) had failed causing something important to be aborted by NASA (?) before the uni got the computer pre-loved.

Owain