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- From: prp@ssd.intel.com (Paul Pierce)
- Subject: Re: World's Toughest Computers
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- References: <1992Nov19.190739.18948@rchland.ibm.com> <BxzED5.B0H@world.std.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:04:44 GMT
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- There was the infamous bombing of the Army Math Research Center at U. Wisconsin
- in the late 60's. (I'm sure someone there can correct this account, but what the
- hey, its folklore.) Karl Armstrong, Ken Fine, et. al. stole Tad Pinkerton's van
- (Tad was the director of the computing center), filled it with
- fertilizer soaked in gasoline, parked it next to Sterling Hall (the Physics
- department and AMRC), and set it to go off around 4AM.
-
- The blast was heard throughout the city. (Seven miles away, it woke up my
- mother). A physics grad student, Robert Fassnacht(?) was killed. Major damage to
- the building.
-
- A CDC-924 dropped through one whole floor, and when they connected it up again it
- still worked. I heard this model was originally designed for submarines, but
- the physics department got some surplus. One was still in use there in the mid
- 70s.
-
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- Paul Pierce prp@ssd.intel.com
- Intel
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