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From: hgp@abnjh.UUCP (H. Page)
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Subject: Re: Nearly Prehistoric Computers
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Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 02:05:23 EST
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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
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