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Inside the CDC 6500

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The newest arrival at Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Living Computer Museum in Seattle is a big one - both literally and figuratively. Weighing more than 10,000 pounds, the Control Data Corporation 6500 is part of a line of machines that were the first to be called "supercomputers." It was turned off in 1989 after two decades at Purdue University. Now, Allen's engineers in Seattle are preparing to bring it back to life. The restoration will take an estimated two years - a project so challenging that there's no guarantee of success.

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@timothystockman7533 8 месяцев назад

I was a student at Purdue in the mid-1970s and used that computer extensively.

@alberthartl8885 Год назад

The cooling system was made by Autocon Industries. It was in St Paul just off University Ave. If you could locate any old employees, they could help you out with the restoration.

@elucify 8 лет назад

I ran programs on that commuter in 1980. Cool to see it!

@gmc9753 7 лет назад

We had a CDC back in the 80's at UMBC. I learned assembly on that thing.

@GH-oi2jf 5 лет назад

Very hard to restore and expensive. You not only need to fix the refrigerators, you need chilled water to cool the compressors. You need an external motor generator for 400 Hz power. The interbay cables are a huge problem.

@DylanMcNamee 18 дней назад

I am so sad the Living Computer Museum is no longer.

@videosuperhighway7655 8 лет назад

Wow nice big RCA power transistors.

@keyboard_g Месяц назад

This museum is closed now. I hope it found a good home.

@rdvqc 3 года назад

Nostalgia! Worked on many Cyber systems and OS.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 6 лет назад

Fun to see a suggested link on the side to a vid about the Centers For Disease Control. Wrong CDC, RU-vid!

@Albertkallal 3 года назад

Did not 6500 run Plato systems? And that's quite ironic since Plato was mostly a system for driving educational work stations and not high performance computing.

@GH-oi2jf Год назад

Plato IV could be hosted on any CDC-6000 system.

@Albertkallal Год назад

@@GH-oi2jf Ah, ok. I did see the "computer" room at the time. There was quite a big room (at University of Alberta). The other system was a Amdahl (470 I believe). So, while I was taking computing science, I also did quite a bit of code on the Plato system. (tutor language). And I also did some micro-tutor (code that could run stand-alone on a Plato terminal with a 8 inch floppy drive. And of course even without a floppy drive, micro-tutor could run/download on any terminal. One of our members wrote a PERFECT rendition of space invaders. And I recall that the we had just received the "newer" tutor language version. (it was VERY nice upgrade, since then calling routines supported parameter's (and local variables if I am not mistaken). With the newer tutor language features, it was a very capable and formable language. Thus, with tutor having become quite a nice "structured" language? , As a result, we would up writing some amazing software. We built anat-sim (a system that allowed non developers to build courseware, and that project then morphed into omni-sim. No matter how one spins this? That system had a fantastic set of features. Beyond great memories I have writing software on that system. I wish I had kept some of that software, since some of it was just fantastic stuff. With micro-tutor code, you could quite much re-create most of the popular arcade games like space invaders, or break-out. (I wrote one of those - it worked just fantastic). and of course someone wrote a missile command - again, just near perfect rendition of that game. We also wrote a "level" editor, and started a Castle Wolfenstein "clone" of the Apple II version of that game. Oh, my -- too much fun that System was!! And what was that multiple player fighter pilot game? Our squads in Alberta would play against the French people in Quebec! - again, what a barrel of fun! I am trying to remember my logon, quite sure it was kallal@ualberta, (my last name).