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To: Scumbria who wrote (68918)	11/20/1998 7:26:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 186894

Scumbria literally held together with erector set (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) components Didn't understand that this was a descriptive and not metaphorical phrase - most people in the business would take that to mean the clones built out of spot products, where the only thing the 'manufacturer' adds is the logo. I worked on a lot of those early CPQ machines too - we were replacing DEC Lab-11 data acquisition gear with CPQ machines in a lot of industrial applications in 1983-84. The CPQs had better heat and shock specs than the supposedly 'ruggedized' PDP-11's.