Well someone knews these some. the one that I worked with was not hooked
to any mill, it was instead of DEC. It happens to be a 6701 bitslice
based system with core. The Ones I had contact with were the 2100 and
the 2200 (sith disks and all the goodies).
$10k??? Foo, I could had the 2100 we were using for 2000 (early 1973).
Allison
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Will Jennings wrote:
> Ah yes, the Cincinatti Milacron. Now that is a truly unusual beast... I'd
> bet you could probably find one pretty easily, it would just cost you
> something like $10,000 however. The reason being is that Cincinatti Milacron
> was formerly known as the Cincinatti Milling Machine Co., and they are known
> for their machine tools, I think mostly lathes and the like (lathes for
> steel, not wood). At any rate, in about 1970 or '71, they decided to
> computerize their milling machines, but they didn't want to use just someone
> else's mini (i.e., a PDP-11 for example), so they designed their own. The
> first model was not actually designed by them, it was a General Automation I
> think, I can't remember. However, all later machines were inhouse designs.
> They're all 16-bits, can't remember too much else though. I got this info
> out of circa 1968-1973 or so vintage copies of "Datamation".
>
> Will J
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