On 2015-Jul-04, at 7:15 PM, d...@661.org wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jul 2015, Toby Thain wrote:
>
>> On 2015-07-04 7:37 PM, simon wrote:
>>> found in the archives of CERN, this image is beautiful! but what IBM
>>> system is this.
>>> https://cds.cern.ch/record/1847692
>>
>> There's a pretty prominent "7890" on those cpu(?) cabinets.
>>
>> Is it the IBM-compatible Siemens 7890(S) mentioned here?
>> http://cnlart.web.cern.ch/cnlart/2001/003/comp30-last/
>
> How many individual computers are in that picture?
Including the other photos, identified so far:
Cyber 170 (2 machines I presume)
Siemens 7•890 (1 or 2 ?)
VAX 780
a Modcomp mini (speaking of out-of-the mainstream minis)
Note that that room is just for DD division machines - general computing
services: data processing, number crunching, external networking, etc.
At the time, the accelerator control was being done by Norsk-Data minis located
in the accelerator control room, as shown and explained to me by someone who
had worked on their programming; and there were machines all over the rest of
the site associated with things like data-collection from experiment sensors,
assorted labs, etc. I recall for instance, seeing a VAX-750 doing sensor
data-collection, and a lab filled with some graphics machines, but don't recall
what type they were.
