15 Aug
2020
15 Aug
'20
4:02 a.m.
On Fri, 14 Aug 2020, Rich wrote:
On a vaguely related note, I found it amusing that
there was a well
known hack for Cray's (or perhaps 6600's) which were misbehaving: put a
Tektronix scope probe on a test point that generally had one there
during final system checkout. The load (extremely mnimal by design) was
just enough to stabilize the system.
There was also the story about the major difference between a Cyber 72 and
a Cyber 73 was just a timing capacitor... Very expensive capacitor :-)
-- Dave