Can anyone identified these old water chillers ?

[Bob Bradlee]

I have been attempting to identify some early CPU coolers, At first I was led to believe 
they were off of an IBM system, I have not found any IBMers that could identify them. 

I am now thinking they may have been fabricated for any water chilled system, 
they may have been a retrofit for an air cooled system in a water chiller enviroment.

>From the size of the feed lines, this was a low pressure high volume chiller, and there 
were between 30 and 40 of these hanging on the system doors.

Here is a link, if anyone recognize them, I am sure Lew (the owner) would love to know as 
would several others who are equally baffled.

http://www.ibm-collectables.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album07

Bob Bradlee


On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:45:33 -0800, Chuck Guzis wrote:

>On 11/16/2005 at 10:46 AM Allison wrote:

>>Water cooling had one less obvious avantage. You can dump the waste heat
>>outside the building or at least outside the computer room.

>At CDC Sunnyvale, we had a big cooling tower that handled both the chilled
>water for the computers as well as the HVAC for the building.  When I first
>came to Sunnyvale, I remember that the first thing that I saw of the
>building (sitting in the middle of an onion field) was the big vapor plume.


>I can't ever remember seeing a water leak in the machine room.  The Bryant
>6603 disks (and one very memorable 808 drive) would leak hydraulic fluid,
>however.  Made a terrible mess. 

>By far, the worst problem was construction that was going on in the area.
>It would cause the power to go out at unexpected times.  Bringing a machine
>back up after a power failure in those days was a major chore taking hours
>and sometimes days.   Normally, machines were never powered down, except
>for moving or major maintenance.

>As I remember it, both CDC and Cray used the same guy to design their
>refrigeration--and he wasn't an employee of either firm, but a guy who used
>to work for Amana.   

>Cheers,
>Chuck