12 Mar
2016
12 Mar
'16
11:23 a.m.
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 10:57 AM, <COURYHOUSE at aol.com> wrote:
and for horrible deep level maint. I would
imagine they would be
useful....
they look like something too complex to let operations level people
diddle with...
but are these used with exactly WHICH Honeywell system? If we
are going to display them need to tell the right story in the museum.
Ed#
If the registers A and Q are 36 bit, then it is from the GE-600 line, which
over time included the 615, 625, 635, 645, 655. GE sold the line off to
Honeywell where it became the Honeywell 6000 series: 6025, 6030, 6040,
6050, 6070, 6080, 6180. After Honeywell merged the line with Bull, the
machines were named (at various times) Level 66, Level68, DPS-8, DPS-8M,
DPS-88, DPS-90, DPS-9000.
So 'GE-600 series' is a safe bet.
If one of the panels has a section labeled 'Appending Unit', then it was a
Multics machine, GE-645, DPS-8M, or (I think) 6040/6080/6180.
If you want a better estimate, I can ask some of the Multicians to look at
the pictures; or, if you know what site the panels came from, there exists
pretty good documentation about what was at which sites.
-- Charles