13 Nov
2005
13 Nov
'05
1:30 a.m.
It now seems incredible on what amounts to a 10 MHz
mainframe, but wire
length was a big part of the CDC 6600 design puzzle.
Somewhat related news...
While at Georgia Tech the other day on a road trip, I found out their old
CDC Cyber 180 bit the dust about two years ago. I think at some point this
list was notified that the machine was still around but doomed, and some ,
like myself, got onto a mailing list to know when the machine went to
surplus. Well, it skipped that step.
A machine I would have killed for...
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org