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The main picture was taken at the Jim Austin Collection and NOT the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge. Decades after using the machine I visited it at Jim's sheds. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.13.78.49 (talk) 06:46, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

To do: add more about the serious uses of Phoenix, eg. "chemists" and crystallographers, the rabbit job

TBDs removed to talk page Espresso Addict 01:29, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Out of curiousity - is there a reason why an internal reference (Titan Multiple Access System) is kept in the reference list (as #5) and not an inline link?

Also I, for one, am very happy this article wasn't deleted when it was nominated. Deletions suck. I find myself happening on articles regularly that once were nominated. Makes me wonder how many of my search misses once were hits. LordEniac (talk) 06:56, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Source[edit]

https://web.archive.org/web/20010411094604/http://www.adventuregamer.com/cgi/news/news.cgi?v=archive&c=Adventure_News&id=0825997356

Name of the machine[edit]

I was at the Computer Lab from 1972 to 1975, and I don't remember the machine itself ever being referred to as Phoenix: the name was used at that time for the Cambridge version of the operating system and particularly the command/shell language (which was a reinvention of the command language used on Titan). The machine itself would be referred to as "the IBM". (I don't think the term "mainframe" was yet common: computers were simply called "computers" until different flavours appeared.)

The amount of space given to games in this article is quite disproportionate. Mhkay (talk) 08:40, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As a student in the late 80s I can say the machine itself was indeed called Phoenix and had an X25 (short) hostname of (uk.ac.)cam.phx . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A0D:C600:102:0:6031:E1B:2932:95A1 (talk) 18:25, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Upgrades[edit]

I don't recall exactly when, in 1992 or 1993, the system memory of the 3084Q was doubled or even tripled because another university shut down their mainframe and the memory was shipped from there. This may be worth mentioning.2A02:810D:2440:2933:F872:355:509B:5387 (talk) 07:48, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There is detail on the upgrades including the memory in the Computing Service newsletter, some of which I scanned, at https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/sec/5088/University-of-Cambridge-Computing-Service-Newsletter/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A0D:C600:102:0:6031:E1B:2932:95A1 (talk) 18:29, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]