27 Oct
2004
27 Oct
'04
20:38
The first computer I worked on had them and lots of vacuum tubes. It had the power of one of the first radio shack computers. It took up one story of a five story building and had an interlock with the air conditioning system as they claimed that if the air cond failed the computer would reach the combustion temp of paper in five minutes. I don't know if they were exaggerating or not. Bob
Heh, was it powered by AMD? ;)
There was a link floating around a few months ago with a guy who replaced the heatsink/fan on his cpu with a miniature frying pan and fried an egg on his cpu. I don't remember what cpu it was but I hear Pentium 4s are best for cooking ;-) Jeff