Who remembers CDC Plato?...run it again on a cyber at home... could it be done?

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Fri Oct 20 08:30:03 2000

> The OS that ran on the system was called KRONOS. It was a multi-user
> multi-executive OS that did both interactive and batch processing. There
> were a number of RJE stations around the campus that had punch card
> readers and printers that users could submit their F77 (Fortran 77)
> and PASCAL jobs to remotely.

How pleasant to find someone else who worked at a Kronos site
instead of the more usual SCOPE sites. We had Kronos at IU on
a CDC 6600/Cyber 174 Multi-Mainframe system (using some code
from Cambridge University and some Z-80 based disk controllers
designed by a guy named Steel at Purdue).

> > What are my chances of fiding one?
>
> Next to nil, I would guess. They were loaded with precious metals (gold!)
> and lots of good scrap metal too. The scrappers loved 'em.

There are still some 64-bit era Cybers in service; Syntegra
(the remnants of CDC) still support NOS (nee Kronos), NOS/BE
(nee SCOPE), and NOS/VE (the 64-bit OS).

-dq
Received on Fri Oct 20 2000 - 08:30:03 BST