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Friday August 19, 2005 
• Old Supercomputers Never Die
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Ever wonder what happened to all
those big mainframe computers from the 60's-80's? Well, there are still
some mainframe fanatics among us. Over at http://www.cray-cyber.org/general/start.php
you'll find a few folks in Munich collecting old CDC
and Cray equipment and actually trying to get them up and running. The
NOS operating system RULES!
The picture on the left is dear to my heart. How many hours did I spend
over this thing? The CDC 405 card reader really sucked. Literally. It
had a pneumatic system that inhaled the cards in the front tray at a
ridiculous speed and spewed them out the back tray. Pity the unlucky
bloke whose bent cards fouled the transport and had them come flying
out into the air all bent accordion style.
Ah, sweet nostalgia. Nothing like it today |
( Aug 19 2005, 12:30:24 PM PDT )
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