4 May
2000
4 May
'00
12:42 a.m.
Well someone knews these some. the one that I worked with was not hooked
to any mill, it was instead of DEC. It happens to be a 6701 bitslice
based system with core. The Ones I had contact with were the 2100 and
the 2200 (sith disks and all the goodies).
$10k??? Foo, I could had the 2100 we were using for 2000 (early 1973).
Allison
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Will Jennings wrote:
Ah yes, the Cincinatti Milacron. Now that is a truly
unusual beast... I'd
bet you could probably find one pretty easily, it would just cost you
something like $10,000 however. The reason being is that Cincinatti Milacron
was formerly known as the Cincinatti Milling Machine Co., and they are known
for their machine tools, I think mostly lathes and the like (lathes for
steel, not wood). At any rate, in about 1970 or '71, they decided to
computerize their milling machines, but they didn't want to use just someone
else's mini (i.e., a PDP-11 for example), so they designed their own. The
first model was not actually designed by them, it was a General Automation I
think, I can't remember. However, all later machines were inhouse designs.
They're all 16-bits, can't remember too much else though. I got this info
out of circa 1968-1973 or so vintage copies of "Datamation".
Will J
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