6 Sep
2015
6 Sep
'15
10:54 p.m.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-197X-RARE-CONTROL-DATA-AD-OMEGA-480-370-COM…
Not that I'm going to bid on it, but ... I had never heard of this
CDC product before. Does anyone have any idea if this was a real
product, or just a way to poke IBM in the eye, or what?
mcl
7 Sep
7 Sep
12:36 a.m.
On 09/06/2015 07:54 PM, Mark Linimon wrote:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-197X-RARE-CONTROL-DATA-AD-OMEGA-480-370-COM…
Not that I'm going to bid on it, but ... I had never heard of this
CDC product before. Does anyone have any idea if this was a real
product, or just a way to poke IBM in the eye, or what?
It's not a CDC product--it was made by IPL Systems, Inc. and marketed by
CDC and supplied with CDC peripherals. I don't know if the agreement
yielded much in sales; by 1981, IPL was selling to end users under its
own brand.
Olivetti also sold IPL iron.
Yet another of several IBM mainframe clone makers.
--Chuck
10:35 p.m.
So, an IBM compatible machine, sold by CDC, with a DEC terminal for the console? Must have
been the beginning of the end :-)
On September 6, 2015 11:36:05 PM CDT, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 09/06/2015 07:54 PM, Mark Linimon wrote:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-197X-RARE-CONTROL-DATA-AD-OMEGA-480-370-COM…
> Not that I'm going to bid on it,
but ... I had never heard of this
> CDC product before. Does anyone have any idea if this was a real
> product, or just a way to poke IBM in the eye, or what?
It's not a CDC product--it was made by IPL Systems, Inc. and marketed
by
CDC and supplied with CDC peripherals. I don't know if the agreement
yielded much in sales; by 1981, IPL was selling to end users under its
own brand.
Olivetti also sold IPL iron.
Yet another of several IBM mainframe clone makers.
--Chuck
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