1 Jan
2006
1 Jan
'06
12:56 p.m.
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.
On 1/1/06, Mike Loewen <mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us> wrote:
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Chuck Guzis wrote:
--
Jim Isbell
"If you are not living on the edge, well then,
you are just taking up too much space."
On 1/1/2006 at 1:00 PM Mike Loewen wrote:
Is that a mock-up reproduction, Mike? It's been a long time since I've
seen a 6000 without a CEJ/MEJ switch! It's kind of hard to believe that
there would be any left around without one.
It's the real deal, as far as I know. I know next to nothing about CDC
systems. The sign says it's a model 6600, serial number 1.
Which looks sort of reasonable except for the 224
character record length
on what's being read. Do you know what system this was set up to
deadstart?
Again, no clue. I just happened to take some shots of it at a visit to
the Computer History Museum, this summer. The "CDC 6400/6500/6600
Computer Systems Reference Manual" on bitsavers has a slightly different
picture of the dead start panel on page 6-3, again without the CEJ/MEJ
switch:
http://bitsavers.vt100.net/cdc/6x00/60100000D_6600refMan_Feb67.pdf
Here are a some more pics:
http://ripsaw.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/CDC6600-1.jpg
http://ripsaw.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/CDC6600-2.jpg
http://ripsaw.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/CDC6600-3.jpg
http://ripsaw.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/CDC6600-4.jpg
http://ripsaw.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/CDC6600-5.jpg
http://ripsaw.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/CDC6600-6.jpg
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://ripsaw.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
