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Jay Morris  <morrisj@epsilon3.me> wrote:
>On 4/6/2025 6:28 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> 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
>> 
>
>Thanks Scott. (Amazing how r.a.sf.* people pop up everywhere.)

Not that I was very helpful.  Although I just boxed up a whole bunch of
COMPASS manuals to send to the computer history museum.  (And at Langley
we loved CDC so much that we bought the 64-bit STAR-100 which never really 
lived up to what CDC promised.... all of those manuals got shipped off to the
CHM also...)  We did a lot better with the Star than Ames did with the ETA-10
though.
--scott

-- 
"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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