what IBM system is this?

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sat Jul 4 19:13:31 CDT 2015


On 07/04/2015 04:37 PM, simon wrote:
> found in the archives of CERN, this image is beautiful! but what IBM
> system is this.
>
> https://cds.cern.ch/record/1847692

I don't believe you're looking at a single system.  Note the banks of 
CDC 844 disk drives in the foreground (you can even make out the 
"Control Data" logo.

I suspect that the cross and 3/4 cross CPUs are CDC CYBER 170s (or 180s).

So, not really IBM at all

--Chuck



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