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[James Knott]

Erik (Caneris) wrote:
> James wrote: 
>   
>> Where are you located in that building?  My office used to be in the
>> north east corner of the 5th floor.  My work took me throughout the
>> building, but most of it was on the 4th & 5th floors.
>>
>>     
> 7th and 8th.
>
> Err..."offices", what's that? :)
> Don't think you'll find too many of those there nowadays, it's nearly all colo space....with windows (and some Windows too).
>
>   

Back when I worked there, Unitel Communications had most of the building
and the main Toronto central office was on the 4th & 5th floors.  For
many years, Air Canada had a big Univac system for their reservations on
the 6th, and many years ago, the 7th was company business offices.  The
old telegram business was on the 2nd floor.  Lots of power stuff in the
basement and a few other locations in the building.  All told, I worked
in that building for over 17 years.  Back in the days when I was a
computer tech, I worked on a wide variety of computers there, including
Data General Nova & Eclipse, DEC PDP-8i, PDP-11, VAX 11/780, Collins
8500C (in Air Canada) and PR1ME.  In my last few years there, I was in
planning and I was the one who did virtually all the planning for
communications equipment installations for Unitel in that building, the
CN Tower and many customers in the downtown core.  In that one building
on Front St., there were over 6,000 bays (mostly 9' high) of equipment,
that I had to keep track of.  It took more than 7000 amps at 48V DC to
power most of it, though there was also a fair bit running on AC and
some on 24V DC.


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