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Re: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

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Jay Morris  <morrisj@epsilon3.me> wrote:
>If anyone is still reading here, a question.  Scanning the newsgroup it 
>seems that at least a couple people had experience with the Central 
>Computer Complex at CCAFS.  I worked in Range Control with the Datapoint 
>Scheduling system and then as system manager in the Range Operations 
>Control Center so had little but occasional interaction with the CCC and 
>the CDC systems. God only knows why but today I was trying to remember 
>what the CDC system and peripherals were. Google didn't pop up anything 
>I recognized. Anybody remember?

I know they were running NOS on CDC Cyber 170 systems with the 60-bit
architecture, just like we were doing up at Langley, because we shared
some resources.  I don't know any details beyond that.

I do know that some of the 170 sites upgraded to 180 machines running in
compatibility mode for performance but I don't know any of the details.
Langley kept running 170s until the death of CSC in the mid-1990s.
--scott


"The Cyber is like a time machine that only goes backwards."
     -- gus baird, 1986 

-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Jay Morris <morrisj@epsilon3.me> - 2025-04-05 21:57 -0500
  Re: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2025-04-06 07:28 -0400
    Re: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Jay Morris <morrisj@epsilon3.me> - 2025-04-06 18:18 -0500
      Re: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2025-04-07 08:54 -0400

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