#control data corporation

[dinosaurspen]

CDC 1604, via CHM (archive)

[cathodedlu]

Haven't posted in ages, but I recently got my hands on a Texas Instruments DS990 Model 4 minicomputer!

It's gonna take a loooot of work to get it functional, especially the DS10 disk drive (which is just a CDC Hawk with a TI badge slapped on), but hopefully I can bring it back to life :3 Looking forward to programming it, since the 990 series has pretty cool features, like easy context switching.

[science70]

Controller about to insert an Octopack of cartridges into a Control Data Corporation CDC Mass Storage System, 1975.

[humanoidhistory]

Control Data Corporation, an early pioneer in computing, was established in Minnesota on this day in 1957.

[commodorez]

Do you have a favourite supercomputer?

Sure do!

CDC 6600

Here's a console and about a quarter of the rest of the machine at the Computer History Museum. Released in 1964, and designed by Seymour Cray, Control Data Corporation had a beast of a machine capable of 2 MIPS, with a 60-bit processor operating at 10MHz

The two-screen, round CRT console is just so awesome. I wish I could sit down at a console like this and give one of these machines a try for myself.

[multician]

Another old thing (2014) featuring a bunch of my (then partner, now) spouse's Control Data Corporation OS personifications. (And special guests...)

From left-to-right foreground: VSOS-tan (SCOPE and LTSS-tan's older daughter), SCOPE-tan (matriarch of the CDC family), eOS-tan (SCOPE and LTSS-tan's younger daughter), LTSS-tan (mad scientist and friends-with-experiments to SCOPE), and NLTSS-tan & CrTSS-tan (LTSS-tan's children)

And in the background, KRONOS-kun picnicking with MTS-tan, andCDC NOS-tan being tormented by Cray 1-tan's ice powers.

[dinosaurspen]

Control Data Corporation disk drives at the University of Auckland. 

[dinosaurspen]

UNIVAC 1232 & Control Data 3800 satellite control computers, both manufactured in the 1960s and used until the 1990s. Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center, own work.