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Refrigerator size suggests to me one of the very early models, which in fact could have been much more problematic than any of the latter. I seem to recall bein
by p_l 5y ago
Refrigerator size suggests to me one of the very early models, which in fact could have been much more problematic than any of the latter. I seem to recall being warned in case of "free to good home" 3600 about how delicate it was.
- pinewurst 5y agoI had a 3630 which was a somewhat wide deskside tower, no louder than a deskside Sun 3. I never had any service problems other than a somewhat dubious tape drive.
- p_l 5y ago3630 was second generation design, a so-called "G-machine" (vs. "L-machine" of previous models), and I believe it already shipped with Ephemeral GC from start. I was advised that if possible, grab the boards necessary to upgrade 3600 to 3670 to have much easier life ;)
- Animats 5y agoYes, the Symbolics 3600. In the later models, Symbolics apparently got their hardware act together, but I never used any of those. There was a period in early workstations where we had one or two of everything, and finally settled on Sun workstations. The early 1980s were a time of great hardware creativity, and many dead ends.
- convolvatron 5y agothe early 3600s were actually wire wrapped. we had a fair number of field repairs.