[SML] turning off light boards

[Kristi R-C]

DEC made tanks. I used to program on a PDP 11/70. I think you could have bombed it and it would have been fine. 

Kristi R-C

> On Nov 26, 2015, at 12:32 PM, Chip Wood via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
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> Did that in '75 when NSA retired their PDP-1 (Serial # 1) for a PDP-10 back when core was core and NSA was only a little paranoid.  Ran a million cycles of random data thru it and they said that wasn't enough. So we yanked it and put it on a shelf.  That thing could still be there after 40 years.
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> Chip 1
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>> On 11/24/2015 8:41 AM, Alf Sauve' via Stagecraft wrote:
>>> On 11/23/2015 10:36 PM, Richard John Archer via Stagecraft wrote:
>>> volatile core memories
>> Never heard of "volatile" core memory.   One of the advantages, possible the only one, of 'core" memory was that it was not volatile.  It actually was a real pain if you were trying to scrub it clean of classified data.     Been there. done that.
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