Altair Fan

[Eric Smith]

Tony wrote:
> I will not substantially change the design (and this includes
> replacing linear PSUs with SMPSUs, for example),

I may well replace the PSUs in a KL10 with SMPSUs.  That reduces the
operating costs by more than $30/day.  Compuserve did this to their KL10s
in the last 1970s and throughout the 1980s.  Compuserve purportedly sold
these mods to other DEC customers, and offered the design of their power
system to DEC, hoping to buy them preconfigured that way.  But DEC wasn't
interested.

Eric