OT: Language for the ages

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10/16/2005 at 3:09 PM Guy Sotomayor wrote:

>A mere pittance!  The main (unregulated) DC supply for my KL10 CPU is
>12v at 490A! :-)

Hmmm, next thing we'll be seeing up for grabs is one of those big 3-phase
MG sets used on the old mainframes.  Power supply regulation was tweaking a
Variac and looking at a meter.  Wonder how many DC amps a CDC 6600 system
(CPU and peripherals) needed? IIRC power distribution was 400 Hz AC, so
it'd take some back-of-the-envelope pencil work.

--Chuck