1 Jul
2019
1 Jul
'19
8:34 p.m.
Anyone know what hardware was at NASA Ames in the late 70s? I've got
some tapes from there and would like to avoid guessing.
--Chuck
4:55 a.m.
On 2 Jul 2019, at 1:34 pm, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Anyone know what hardware was at NASA Ames in the late
70s? I've got
some tapes from there and would like to avoid guessing.
Well excitingly it was home
to the Illiac IV supercomputer! supported by a Burroughs B6700 and DEC PDP-10, both would
have had tape drives. The Illiac IV arrived at NASA Ames in 1975 and was decommissioned in
1982 so it covers your time period.
Are there any annotations on the tape covers?
8:58 a.m.
On 7/2/19 4:55 AM, Nigel Williams wrote:
On 2 Jul 2019, at 1:34 pm, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I knew about the Illiac--I was acquainted with a few people on the
project. I suspect that the tapes are far more pedestrian than
that--they're almost certainly 7-track. Beyond that, nothing on the
labels that could be considered to be meaningful.
I'm wondering if these might be Univac 1100 series tapes. I'll know
more when I get a chance to take a look at the things in a bit more detail
--Chuck
Anyone know what hardware was at NASA Ames in the
late 70s? I've
got some tapes from there and would like to avoid guessing.
Well excitingly it was
home to the Illiac IV supercomputer! supported
by a Burroughs B6700 and DEC PDP-10, both would have had tape drives.
The Illiac IV arrived at NASA Ames in 1975 and was decommissioned in
1982 so it covers your time period.
Are there any annotations on the tape covers? 
6:38 a.m.
On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 08:34:15PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Anyone know what hardware was at NASA Ames in the late
70s? I've got
some tapes from there and would like to avoid guessing.
--Chuck
I remember that few years ago someone wrote a short note about
competing with NASA engineer on foo-bay for parts to be used in
resuscitation of their PDP-11. So I guess they had a few in various
locations forty years ago.
--
Regards,
Tomasz Rola
--
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home **
** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... **
** **
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7:04 a.m.
Eugene Miya, not sure if he lurks here but I know he is on Facebook, would
know off the top of his head.
Lee C.
On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 8:34 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Anyone know what hardware was at NASA Ames in the late
70s? I've got
some tapes from there and would like to avoid guessing.
--Chuck
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