On 08/15/2016 10:03 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > On 8/15/16 9:21 AM, william degnan wrote: >> one last comment....learning here, did not know the connection >> between cyber 70 and the 6600. Thanks >> > > yes, it's confusing and you aren't the first person confused by it.
If you had a 6400 and a Cyber 73 sitting side-by-side, stripped of their "skins", it would be difficult for the average person to tell the difference. CDC management went a bit bonkers, re-christening old hardware with the "Cyber" tag. In particular, I observed that the STAR-100 was re-dubbed the "Cyber 200" almost at the end of its product life. I'm not aware of a 100 ever bearing the "CYBER" nameplate. But at bitsavers, that's where you have to look--the "Cyber" subdirectory--even though the 200 and its ilk had nothing in common with the other machines dubbed "Cyber". --Chuck
