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Nice to meet you. Yeah the smell of overcooked circuits down there was something eh? I forget my room number now but there was something called the Pyramid next
by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Nice to meet you. Yeah the smell of overcooked circuits down there was
something eh? I forget my room number now but there was something
called the Pyramid next door that was mysterious and hush-hush.
Phil Treleaven was my prof (saw him outside Waterstones last time I
was around ULU so he must still be there).
- mhandley 2y agoHaha, yes, the Pyramid was alien technology, but the cover story was that it was a multiprocessor RISC minicomputer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_Technology When I arrived at UCL, there were three PDP 11/44s of which one (?) was shared by all the undergrads. The pyramid replaced those circa 1987 and was a huge improvement. If I recall correctly, the main workstation lab was B10A, where I spent a lot of time. Then there was a narrow room, B09 I think, that had mission control on the right hand side with a machine room behind it, and a second machine room on the left side. Can't remember which machine room the Pyramid was in. And yes, Phil is still around.
- nonrandomstring 2y agoThe POP11s were a rack of ribs when I saw them, so I figure you must be one of the older boys. Awesome. Totally pm me man. im at @cybershow.uk