Beyond water cooling. (Was Re: Peltier devices for cooling)

Rory McDonald rmcdonald at viewtech.com
Thu Feb 10 18:10:23 CET 2000


YOU WROTE:

S'nother problem. Mechanical deformations with temperature. CD and HD drives
go out of tolerance when the get very far from 70 deg F.
Even crystal oscilators (i.e.; CPU clock) detune somewhat.
 BTW, I used to work on a huge mainframe computer that was water cooled -
and all discreet transistors.
The IBM 360/95 designed by Seymor Cray!

REPLY:
You guys have WAY too much time on your hands- I had no idea this thread
would go so far.  :)
BTW, I used to be a computer operator on the CDC Cyber 850 series- also
water cooled I believe.
FAST machine, at least in it's day.  We used it to perform analysis of
geologic data for oil exploration.
-Rory Mc Donald



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