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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 15:35:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: Grigoni <msg_at_computerpro.com>
To: John Dykstra <jdykstra_at_nortelnetworks.com>
Subject: RE: CDC 924 console in 'The Terminator'
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, John Dykstra wrote:
> On Monday, October 11, 1999 11:05 PM, Grigoni [SMTP:msg_at_computerpro.com]
> wrote:
> > A reasonbly good scan of the showcase photograph from a marketing brochure
> > for the CDC 924 can be found at: http://www.mtr.webconcept.de/image/
> > computer/cdc/924.jpg
>
> The correct URL is <http://www.mtr.webconcept.de/image/computer/cdc924.jpg>.
>
> Michael, when was this machine marketed? The tape drives in the photo look
> like 607's, and the chassis is similar to a 6000-series machine.
They seem to be pre-corporate-switch 606s, eg. 606A or B. However, the
machine (like the 1604) was originally marketed with Ampex tapedrives,
generally the vacuum-column versions although the torsion-arm versions
were also used (the model numbers escape me at the moment, but in the
case of the 1604 I believe the 4-drive chassis was the 1605).
This photo is of a newer configuration, probably circa 1963. I remember
some indications that the 1604 and 924 were prototyped in 58-59 and
the 1604 first delivered to the Navy in 1960. Our 160 reference manual
(first printing with the blue/white color scheme) is dated 1959.
Michael Grigoni
Cybertheque Museum
>
> It's amusing to note that the teletypewriter in the photo is an IBM model.
> CDC made some pretty good peripherals, but they didn't try to out-do IBM in
> this arena.
>
> -- John
>
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