Ahh, the Burroughs equivalent.
32 serial terminals hung off the back. Four power supplies requiring four power leads, not a cascade of power splitters.
No bloody wonder it kept blowing the fuse. It's startup current was close to 20amps.
'We needed the plug sockets' was the feeble response.
Two days later and I'm back on site removing the four way extension lead and replugging it into four separate sockets.
Six months later, it got replaced by a new fangled Pentium machine and a new serial multiplexer. To the Burroughs credit, it did run faultlessly for 20 years.
( moonbadger Doesn't judge a fish by its ability to climb trees, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 14:17, Reply)