2 Dec
2008
2 Dec
'08
7:40 p.m.
William Donzelli wrote:
There's a complete installation from 1978 on 2 acres with two CDC Cyber
840 computers and almost two dozen SEL machines at Vandenberg AFB in
support of WSMC. this is was built in accord with the SALT treaty of the
70's. My friend over there was still providing support through his
company for this facility up until as recent as Sep until the contract
expired, and never renewed. He mentioned they're going to scrap all the
machines there. I would think that CHM would get their hands on
something before going to the scrapper. There's a couple of photos he
had sent me in the past here on my webpage.
http://www2.applegate.org/~ragooman/computers_mini_gallery_tips.html
=Dan
[ Pittsburgh 250th --- http://www2.applegate.org/~ragooman/ ]
The last (that
we know of) government Cyber was taken out of service in
2007. Admittedly that was a 8x0 series and, if it had a card reader, I
doubt it was a 415, but still, it was a real live Cyber running real
apps... (And, for that matter, NOS was maintained as late as 2000 --
there was a Y2K patch for it.)
Certainly there were a few Cybers still going in the early 2000s.
This "last" one - was it a shipboard installation? If so, do you know
which ship?