Re: byte me, The joy of FORTRAN

According to Charlie Gibbs  <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>:

On 2025-02-28, Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:
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c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> writes:
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LONG back I was in a govt data-center. They had some kind of, I'm pretty
sure, early DEC.  The "CPU" was a kinda cubic-meter plastic box of DISCRETE
TRANSISTORS.

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DEC always packaged things in metal until very late in the game, so whatever
you saw it wasn't a DEC product.

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The Wikipedia photo of a straight 8 seems to match his description.

The tabletop version of the straight 8 had smoky plastic covers on the two
frames of flip chip cards above the front panel.  The logic on those cards
was mostly individual transistors so that's probably it.

It could also be rack mounted with more conventional front covers.

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