On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:46:57 +0100, Dave Liquorice wrote:

On 20 Jul 2020 14:16:14 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:

At this point, I think I gave the conservator a bit of a shock. As I
laid my hand on the panel, I said something like "This is the first
time I have touched this panel for over 44 years".

Yerrs, bit disconcerting to be visiting a museum and come across an
exhibit or three that you used to use. Not so bad if the kit was pretty
much a musem piece when you used it but not so good if you remember it
being installed, new...

I did of course know in advance in this case (in the too-familiar words,
but true this time, I had "done my research")

When I used that machine, it was about 5-6 years old. All of the
peripherals were non-Honeywell, and the disk controller was built locally
from scratch. It was, after all, an electronics department.



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