[TUHS] A/UX [was Linux is on-topic]
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Sat Aug 15 12:02:51 AEST 2020
On Fri, 14 Aug 2020, Rich wrote:
> On a vaguely related note, I found it amusing that there was a well
> known hack for Cray's (or perhaps 6600's) which were misbehaving: put a
> Tektronix scope probe on a test point that generally had one there
> during final system checkout. The load (extremely mnimal by design) was
> just enough to stabilize the system.
There was also the story about the major difference between a Cyber 72 and
a Cyber 73 was just a timing capacitor... Very expensive capacitor :-)
-- Dave
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