On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Paul Terry wrote:

In message , martyn dawe
writes

I know computers of that vintage would have had air-con, so have LUL
not maintained the Air-con in all that time ?

If you're referring to the fans seen in a recent BBC clip, I don't think
they're used for cooling anything as advanced as a computer. It looked
to me like they're for cooling the thermionic valves that are still used
in the signal relays. (I did wonder where TfL manage to source
replacement valves these days!)

Decomissioned space shuttles?

tom

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