[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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