On 2015-Jul-04, at 7:15 PM, dave at
661.org wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2015, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2015-07-04 7:37 PM, simon wrote:
found in the archives of CERN, this image is
beautiful! but what IBM
system is this.
https://cds.cern.ch/record/1847692
There's a pretty prominent "7890" on those cpu(?) cabinets.
Is it the IBM-compatible Siemens 7890(S) mentioned here?
http://cnlart.web.cern.ch/cnlart/2001/003/comp30-last/
How many individual computers are in that picture?
Including the other photos, identified so far:
Cyber 170 (2 machines I presume)
Siemens 7?890 (1 or 2 ?)
VAX 780
a Modcomp mini (speaking of out-of-the mainstream minis)
Note that that room is just for DD division machines - general computing services: data
processing, number crunching, external networking, etc.
At the time, the accelerator control was being done by Norsk-Data minis located in the
accelerator control room, as shown and explained to me by someone who had worked on their
programming; and there were machines all over the rest of the site associated with things
like data-collection from experiment sensors, assorted labs, etc. I recall for instance,
seeing a VAX-750 doing sensor data-collection, and a lab filled with some graphics
machines, but don't recall what type they were.