what IBM system is this?

[drlegendre .]

Sigh, CDC... back when Minnesota was a real player in the big iron world.
Their original main office used to be hardly more than a stone's throw from
where I sit typing this.

Being it's the 4th, I'll bet at least one of my neighbors lands a
burned-out rocket on top of the building that sits where CDC once sat.

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>