F*ck a f*cking duck

Fred Cisin wrote: There was also an idle loop for the CDC 6800 (or 6700) that put a cdc "C" up in the front panel lights while idle. I saw a 6 way system at a company called DCC in Memphis Tn, and it was amazing to see all the boxes periodically go idle and see the "C" appear and then flicker out to a dull glow, then suddenly appear again. The power bill for the front panels was a significant amount. I imagine that the 168 was the most expensive, but I'd have to say the CDC OS (whatever it was) having the "C" integrated into its idle loop was better than the 168 with a special program to do the stick man. Also on the 168, you had to dial up all the right registers to get the display, on the CDC front panel, you always got it. IIRC on the cdc it probably was on 10 rows of lights. the 168 had more lights across more rows for a larger display. Jim