VCF Southeast Photos, Now Thinking Machines

Fri May 3 13:02:03 CDT 2019

>> It's a CM-2.  The problem with most CM-2s - aside not working in 2019 - is most were never fully populated with card cages in all 8 hyper-cubes.  That particular machine only has card cages in 2 of the hyper-cubes.  The other 6 are empty.  I'm not sure a machine with max 64K processors was ever actually sold to a real customer.

> Very cool to see some of these being preserved.
> 

Is there any documentation still around? I did a quick check on bitsavers, but couldn’t find any… was I looking in the wrong place?