Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site abnjh.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!abnjh!hgp From: hgp@abnjh.UUCP (H. Page) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Nearly Prehistoric Computers Message-ID: <463@abnjh.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 02:05:23 EST Article-I.D.: abnjh.463 Posted: Tue Feb 14 02:05:23 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 06:32:18 EST References: <584@ihuxq.UUCP> <510@dalcs.UUCP>, <548@ihuxn.UUCP> Organization: ATTIS, NJ Lines: 25 [] Talking 'bout the good old days, anyone out there ever have the privilege to work on an RPC-4000 manufactured by Royal-McBee, General Precision, or Control Data, depending on the day of the week? As I recall, this machine was the advanced model of the LGP-30, with more memory and a larger word length (8008 32bit words). But what I really miss was the oscilloscope used to display the contents of the registers! Also new(?) was a high level language - ACT 4. It worked, but a 100 line program took somewhere on the order of 10 minutes to compile! The company I was with had two machines, one was online while the other was being repaired. They were both retired in 1975. -- Also... When I attended The University of Colorado, the main computing center had 2 CDC 6400's (circa 1963(?)). From what I understand, the only reason they were replaced with a new CDC several years ago is because the maintenance cost were so high... Howard Page ATT-IS ..!abnjh!hgp