On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 10:49 -0800, George Arseneault wrote:
Actually 'real' debugging was when they ran distilled
water over the circuits to remove the dead bugs. (Back
when computers took up their own building)
Hmm, just water?
It's years since I've actually seen a real mainframe, though this was a
transistorised one. Great big metal cabinets, where you opened up the
doors to a rat's nest of wire-wrap, and it used water-cooling through
the doors as well as the rest of the cabinet.
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