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Re: Re: What is a Mainframe?

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From: Mike Takefman
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1989 19:35
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>Well, we had one mainframe (a [you guessed it] Cyber 174), which, to move
>out of the building, we would have had to a) put a crane on the roof of the
>building, and b) blocked all traffic for a block around the building.  I'm
>still not sure how they got it into the building originally 8-).

My high school math teacher was a student at concordia university
during the middle sixties. Some student radicals managed to enter the
computer center at the downtown campus located on the fifth floor and
heaved parts of the Cyber out a window. 

-- 
Michael Takefman	"Who killed John F. Kennedy ? "
University of Toronto		"The Phone Company!"
E.E. Computer Group		
tak@eecg.toronto.edu			True Believer
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From: tak@eecg.toronto.edu (Mike Takefman)
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Subject: Re: Re: What is a Mainframe?
Message-ID: <1989Jul19.153548.6829@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: 19 Jul 89 19:35:46 GMT
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