> Meanwhile back at work, moved from CDC-6600 batch-mode computing to a > Vax 750 with VT100 terminals (a cool $0.5M in 1983) and a $30k+ Heh.. The first system I worked on was a CDC 6600(S/N 32), single cpu/131K core, dozen 401 Diskfiles, 667(NRZI) and 669(RE) tape units, 501 line printer, 405+415 card punch+reader. Later it was upgraded to 844 and 885 diskdrives, a 512 and 580 line printers, 67x tapes. In mid 85 the unit was pulled from service to be replaced with a Cyber 180-860. We also had a Cy74-28(with a 4mb ECS box), and a Cy180-825. I still have 6 8877 tubes that were used to power the consoles on the 6600 and 74-28. Also had the pleasure of working on a CDC 8090 which used papertape to deadstart the card reader, which then deadstarted the tapedrive (507 series) to load the OS, and the console was a tty.. I still have several cordwood modules from the 6600, and a 4k memory/pp stack. My first computer was a TS1000(witht he 16KB modules,1040 printer), upgraded to a TS2068 with the Lareken FDD controller,256KB module, 2040 printer,2050 modem, RTC module, and 2 360K FDD's. Even ran a BBS on that. Finally graduated to a PC-XT with a Seagate ST-412 on an Adaptec RLL controller. Here's a pic of the 6600's last day.. http://owlfarm.dyndns.org/~tmfu/picaCDC6600.jpg Greg http://kernelpanic.dyn.dhs.org/
