1 Jan
2006
1 Jan
'06
3:05 p.m.
That sounds like the one we used. After I left there I went to the
University of Texas where we had the Nova, serial #1. That was, I
guess, the first "desktop". We really thought it was something...for
its time it was. Many years later we were asked by the manufacturer
to return it to them for historical purposes and they gave us a nice
new computer for it.
On 1/1/06, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 1/1/2006 at 2:56 PM Jim Isbell, W5JAI wrote:
--
Jim Isbell
"If you are not living on the edge, well then,
you are just taking up too much space."
I seem to remember a CDC 3300. was there such a
thing? It was about
1961, I think. I think we programed it in COBAL and then later in
Fortran.
There were 2 3000-series families, one known as "lower 3000"
(3100/3300/3500) and the other as "upper 3000". (3600/3800) I never had
any direct experience with them, but I recall that the lower 3000 were 24
bit and the upper 3000 were 48-bit machines and had the "Forbin Project"
blue-glass styling. Most of the CDC 6000 unit record equipment (printers,
card readers, etc.) was designed for a 3000-series peripheral interface and
hooked to a 6683 channel adapter box.
Cheers,
Chuck