Article 593 of comp.sys.cdc: Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc Path: mri-gw!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!uunet!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!hookup!ames!erg.sri.com!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!cidmac.ecn.purdue.edu!3ksnn64 From: 3ksnn64@cidmac.ecn.purdue.edu (Joe Cychosz) Subject: Re: Request for FAQ Message-ID: Sender: news@noose.ecn.purdue.edu (USENET news) Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network References: <2oub04$173@kittyhawk.nrlssc.navy.mil> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 05:49:41 GMT Lines: 38 In article gkc@min.ov.com writes: >OK, my trivia question is to see if we can identify the oldest 60 or >60/64 bit Cyber still in operation. My recollection of the years is a bit fuzzy but I'd say everything is within 6 months. The last 6000 (6500) came out about 1989 from Purdue's computing center. The machine is now at the Cray Museum in Chippawa, and yes we don't need a lot of messages pointing out that this machine really wasn't a Seymour designed machine, and why its part of the Cray Museum. It was the last 6000 intact and no 6600s could be found. The last 6600 can out of its south Pacific home sometime around 1988/89. It was about 6 months after Purdue's 6600 came out. I have never been able to verify if there were 6000 running in Poland after 1989, although it was rummured. The last 70 I know of was around 1990-1 at a NASA site. It was either a 73 or a 74. I don't remember which. There probably was a 74 running at a government site as late as last year. Of the 7600s I don't know of any that are still running. A number of them came out about the same time in 1990-1. The Betis/KAPL machines came out at about that time. And the NASA Ames7600 didn't run ever again after the earthquake (the last big one in SF). Of the 17x/7xx machines. I still run into 720, 730s and 175s. Although I haven't sceen anything else in the 17x series for some time. There are still quite a few 830s, 860s, 865s and 875s still running. I know of at least 1 835 still running. By the way, if anyone knows of a Cyber 7x that is still running I have a program I would like to test that finds a rather unusual hardware design error. All non-functional unit 17x and 7xx machines fail. I would like to know if the error was in the 6000/7x machines as well. Article 595 of comp.sys.cdc: Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc Path: mri-gw!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!news.intercon.com!panix!MathWorks.Com!mvb.saic.com!unogate!stctmkf From: stctmkf@st.unocal.com (Marc Furon) Subject: Re: Request for FAQ Message-ID: Keywords: CDC 6000 Sender: news@unocal.com (Unocal USENET News) Organization: Unocal Corporation References: <2oub04$173@kittyhawk.nrlssc.navy.mil> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 16:58:43 GMT Lines: 19 At a user group meeting for another company last month, a gentleman from a nuclear research institution in Russia asked to speak. He gave a brief presentation that included a diagram of his computer operation. This diagram indicated that they are still running a CDC 6500 with 131KW of CM. I gasped when I saw that machine in the upper right-hand corner of the diagram. The woman sitting next to me (another former analyst on CDC equipment) did also-- we were trying to figure out the probable age of the machine, and we guessed it must be close to 25 years old, if not more. I have the name of the institution at home. I'll bring it in. Marc Furon (Apparently the academic computing center of Krakow deinstalled their Cyber 72 sometime in 1991.) Article 597 of comp.sys.cdc: Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc Path: mri-gw!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!cmcl2!panix!MathWorks.Com!mvb.saic.com!unogate!stctmkf From: stctmkf@st.unocal.com (Marc Furon) Subject: Re: CDC 3300 memories Message-ID: Sender: news@unocal.com (Unocal USENET News) Organization: Unocal Corporation References: <2p3el4$rgi@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Distribution: inet Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 18:38:41 GMT Lines: 16 On the subject of old lower 3000s, the last of those machines I worked on was at Long Beach Memorial Hospital. I know they had that machine through 1984. I also remember that after the final release of MASTER (the "high-powered" operating system for the 3300/3500) an Australian site was interested in keeping in touch with other sites, and they indicated at that time that they expected to keep their machine (I don't remember if it was a 3300 or 3500) through 1987. Rumor also had it that JPL had a lower 3000 in the mid-1980s, and wasn't likely to replace it soon because of the custom hardware they developed for it. As I recall, the final release of MASTER shipped in early 1982. As a followup to my earlier post, the site currently running a CDC 6500 is the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), in Dubna, Russia. (Dubna is apparently not far from Moscow. They seem to be looking for contract work for their programming staff...)