Sigh, CDC... back when Minnesota was a real player in the big iron world. Their original main office used to be hardly more than a stone's throw from where I sit typing this.
Being it's the 4th, I'll bet at least one of my neighbors lands a burned-out rocket on top of the building that sits where CDC once sat. On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Chuck Guzis <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/04/2015 04:37 PM, simon wrote: > >> found in the archives of CERN, this image is beautiful! but what IBM >> system is this. >> >> https://cds.cern.ch/record/1847692 >> > > I don't believe you're looking at a single system. Note the banks of CDC > 844 disk drives in the foreground (you can even make out the "Control Data" > logo. > > I suspect that the cross and 3/4 cross CPUs are CDC CYBER 170s (or 180s). > > So, not really IBM at all > > --Chuck > >
