Control Data 160

I have a CDC "160 Computer Programming Manual" that I obtained many years ago when I was working with CDC equipment. This manual caught my eye and I squirreled it away since we were using the 160-A computers not the 160s. This manual has a publication number of 023a and a date of 1960. The picture shown inside the manual is pretty much like the one described herein. It shows the dropped side panels. The manual shows the Ferranti paper tape reader and the BRPE paper tape punch as standard equipment. As optional equipment it shows Ampex magnetic tape handlers (FR300 or FR400), an 80 column punched card reader (no maker listed), an 80 column card punch (no maker listed), a line printer (no maker listed), a Soroban-modified IBM electric typewriter, and a digital communications line buffer. This manual has 45 pages and shows a full view of the computer and a close-up of the front panel. I always kept this as a kind of a CDC oddity as I had heard that the 160s were a proto type and never actually went into production. At least that is what I heard back then. I hope this information kind of helps to better identify these computers. Bill