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[cellio]

I just walked through a door that is being held open by a computer. (Not the one named "doorstop", however.)

We joke about that sort of thing, but I don't think I've actually seen a computer doorstop since my CMU days. Mmmm... Perq -- doorstop and space heater rolled into one! :-)

(The Perq was a fine machine for its time; I had no complaints. Some projects tended to use machines far past their times, however, and that can be more challenging.)

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[goljerp]

Hmm... when I was an undergrad, there were a series of corridors in the science building which had turned into the home for unused equipment. I think that there was a DEC PDP-11 or somesuch hunkering down there. Another corridor down in the basement had some really cool and old vacuum equipment. I'd walk down there whenever I needed to use the Chemistry department instrument room (or the VT-220 that lived down there... after I got a key, it was the only terminal that I had 24/7 access to.)