> In particular, the machine had an uptime of approximately 35 years including two significant retrofits to newer technology culminating in the current Lucent-d

> In particular, the machine had an uptime of approximately 35 years including two significant retrofits to newer technology culminating in the current Lucent-dressed 7 R/E configuration... Pretty impressive. It makes me sad that the trend is to move away from rock-solid stuff towards more and more unreliable and unpredictable stuff (e.g. LLMs that need constant human monitoring because they mess up so much).