Re: Control Data ad: Omega 480 "370 compatible alternative" on eBay

2017-10-09 Thread Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctalk
On 10/6/17, 3:05 PM, "cctalk on behalf of William Donzelli via cctalk" wrote: >Itel was basically a rebrander. AS/5 was a National Advance system >under the covers, and AS/6 was a Hitachi HITAC M180. > >-- >Will > >On Fri, Oct 6,

Re: Control Data ad: Omega 480 "370 compatible alternative" on eBay

2017-10-09 Thread Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctalk
Itel (which my autocorrect also tries to change into Intel overtime I type it :-) did the marketing, but it was actually built by National Semi. Here¹s an article with some nice photos: http://www.silogic.com/NAS/NAS.html Camiel On 10/6/17, 12:47 PM, "cctalk on behalf of Al Kossow via cctalk"

Re: Control Data ad: Omega 480 "370 compatible alternative" on eBay

2017-10-06 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 10/06/2017 07:59 AM, Anthony Bennett via cctalk wrote: Now here is the kicker. The 370 mainframes had swing gates with motherboards, and each motherboard had a couple of logic cards with components soldered on them. In IBM terminology, those "motherboards" were called "boards" and what

Re: Control Data ad: Omega 480 "370 compatible alternative" on eBay

2017-10-06 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
Itel was basically a rebrander. AS/5 was a National Advance system under the covers, and AS/6 was a Hitachi HITAC M180. -- Will On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 10/6/17 5:59 AM, Anthony Bennett via cctalk wrote: >> If this is the

Re: Control Data ad: Omega 480 "370 compatible alternative" on eBay

2017-10-06 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/6/17 5:59 AM, Anthony Bennett via cctalk wrote: > If this is the machine that I am thinking of, it was made by Intel and > marketed by them as the AS/5. Itel

Re: Control Data ad: Omega 480 "370 compatible alternative" on eBay

2017-10-06 Thread Anthony Bennett via cctalk
Chris, If this is the machine that I am thinking of, it was made by Intel and marketed by them as the AS/5. Control Data sold it as the Omega system, but I am not clear on the "480" nomenclature. It was equivalent to the IBM 370/158, and not only was capable of running 370/158

Re: Control Data ad: Omega 480 "370 compatible alternative" on eBay

2015-09-07 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/6/15 7:54 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: Does anyone have any idea if this was a real product there are a couple of manuals for it on bitsavers

Re: Control Data ad: Omega 480 "370 compatible alternative" on eBay

2015-09-07 Thread Chris Elmquist
So, an IBM compatible machine, sold by CDC, with a DEC terminal for the console? Must have been the beginning of the end :-) On September 6, 2015 11:36:05 PM CDT, Chuck Guzis wrote: >On 09/06/2015 07:54 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: >>

Re: Control Data ad: Omega 480 "370 compatible alternative" on eBay

2015-09-06 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 09/06/2015 07:54 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-197X-RARE-CONTROL-DATA-AD-OMEGA-480-370-COMPATIBLE-ALTERNATIVE-Q-/271967493965?hash=item3f52869f4d Not that I'm going to bid on it, but ... I had never heard of this CDC product before. Does anyone have any idea if

Control Data ad: Omega 480 "370 compatible alternative" on eBay

2015-09-06 Thread Mark Linimon
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-197X-RARE-CONTROL-DATA-AD-OMEGA-480-370-COMPATIBLE-ALTERNATIVE-Q-/271967493965?hash=item3f52869f4d Not that I'm going to bid on it, but ... I had never heard of this CDC product before. Does anyone have any idea if this was a real product, or just a way to poke