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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Retro-Computing! 
In-Reply-To: esl@sdf.saomai.org's message of Fri, 24 Mar 1995 23:43:34 GMT
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In article <D5yxwn.5BG@sdf.saomai.org> esl@sdf.saomai.org (Eric S. Lamemond)
writes:

>The Decsystem20 was also another resource hog.  If you ran one today, you'd
>be looking at spending $1500 a month in just power and cooling.

I realize that this was supposed to be a troll, but I have to correct the
poster's mistaken notions about the power consumption of a KL10:  Power and AC
for a typical KL10-based machine room run more like $100K per year, so he's too
*LOW* by a factor of more than 5....

I presume that he is equating "DEC-20" with "KL10."
-- 
Rich Alderson		[Tolkien quote temporarily removed in favour of
alderson@netcom.com	 proselytizing comment below --rma]

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