Honeywell/Bull DPS-6 deskside info? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

24 Sep 2015

dps 8  was a phx  ax   big  H  project   as I remember 
but new enough  that I would have stored manuals  rather  than
had  them in active  reference section. will  keep   eyes  out!   -Ed#

In a message dated 9/24/2015 1:43:14 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
scaron at umich.edu writes:

I think  this anecdote is also referenced in the AFDC installation site
story on  multicians.org? Sounds familiar...

Best,

Sean

On  Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:42 PM, steve shumaker <shumaker at att.net>  wrote:

...
  On 9/23/2015 2:44 PM, Josh Dersch  wrote:

> Along with the 11/44 I also picked up a  Honeywell/Bull DPS-6 deskside
> workstation; I can't seem to dig up  much information specific to this
> model
> (a badge on  the rear labels it as "Model/Index No. B01732").  I can take
>  some detailed pictures later this week after I've had time to clean it  
up
...
 > (it's very, very dirty), but it looks very
similar to the DPS-6  unit
> pictured on this site:
>  http://www.feb-patrimoine.com/projet/gcos6/gcos6.htm
>
>  Anyone have any docs on this thing?  Or fun anecdotes to share?   What  have
...
   I gotten
myself into with this  thing?

 Thanks,
  Josh

  browse here and elsewhere for  WWMMCCS history and beginnings of
 GCOS/DPS-6/Honeywell  6000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_Military_Command_and_Control_System
...

  One legend that gets trotted out whenever you speak of WWMMCCS is the
  cookie monster that was on  terminals in the Pentagon installation  of
 WWMMCCS.  As the legend goes, at random intervals, the console  would go
 blank, operators would loose control and a message would  display  something
...
  to the effect  "cookie monster hungry - feed 
me".  Supposedly once you
 typed in one of several cookie names,  the routine would release the  system
...
  back to the operator.    I personally know a retired
AF IT manager who
 worked WWMMCCS and  swears its a true story...

 Suspect you will find very little  material other than what Al has - it
 wasn't a particularly common  installed setup.

  Steve