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It's interesting that the people are wearing short sleeves, because it was usually freezing in the computer room. Also deafening. The amount of air conditioning needed to cool the computers also resulted in keeping it fairly cold in the room.


Had me curious, so I found the installation manuals. Apparently they recommend 75F, so perhaps not too cold: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/fe/GC22-6820-12_System_...

Though I've certainly been in some cold raised floor environments.


Thinking about it more, one possibility is that they kept rolling in more and more efficient machines, but never updated the HVAC system. Also, if the floor isn't well sealed, i.e., missing tiles, the room will be colder than necessary.


75F is cold if there is a strong breeze blowing on you all the time. These rooms had lots of airflow.


It was chilly but not so much freezing.

But those short sleeved people were clearly not IBM engineers.




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