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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>I also early on used PDPs for nearly
10 years.....tall rack mounted one. I still remember how I cursed
when it had to be moved from one building to next door, when I found out
the rack was 1/4" taller than the lift doors. That meant the whole
thing had to be dissasembled to move it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>The PDP was the only computer I came
across smart enough to put this error message as it died - on a console
screen when someone accidentally turned of the main system power.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>"?MON-F-Power Failure"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Thats the computer equivalent of
Shakespeare "The rest is silence"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>It ended up in a dump bin in the mid
1990's. But not for long. Most of it was taken by scavengers
by the next morning. Hope they knew what they were
getting!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>John</DIV></BODY></HTML>