CDC 6600 - Why so awesome?

Michael Thompson michael.99.thompson at gmail.com
Sun Jun 26 08:44:27 CDT 2016


ate: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 13:43:16 -0400
>
> From: Earl Baugh <earl at baugh.org>
> To: cctech at classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: CDC 6600 - Why so awesome?
>
> This thread reminded me that I recently got shipped what the person told me
> was a CDC 6000 Central Memory core.
> (it matches what's on this page :
> http://www.museumwaalsdorp.nl/computer/en/6400hwac.html ).   He told me
> that
> the console looked like this :
> http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/craytalk/sld031.htm
>
> Earl
>

The Computer Museum in Boston gave pieces of the CDC 6600 core to donors.
I still have it.

-- 
Michael Thompson


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