On November 14, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
From what era is the Cyber 960 from? 1960's?
Early 1980s.
Is it considered a supercomputer (in it's
day)?
No. Just a mainframe.
Yup. Though, it's great-grampa was a supercomputer. The
first, in fact.
I assume you mean the 6600. *sigh* *drool*
A friend has a core stack from the one we used to have in Bloomington, IN...
as well as a platter from one of the Bryant drives. I have a roll
of black, blank, oiled (pretty dry now) paper tape from the CDC's
high-speed punch/reader. And my manuals, still... and the emulator,
under construction, *slowly* under construction...
Oh, I found an *EOI* (end-of-information) card the other day,
that was a 6/7/8/9 punch in column 1...
-dq