So, an IBM compatible machine, sold by CDC, with a DEC terminal for the console? Must have been the beginning of the end :-)
On September 6, 2015 11:36:05 PM CDT, Chuck Guzis <ccl...@sydex.com> wrote: >On 09/06/2015 07:54 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: >> >http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-197X-RARE-CONTROL-DATA-AD-OMEGA-480-370-COMPATIBLE-ALTERNATIVE-Q-/271967493965?hash=item3f52869f4d >> >> Not that I'm going to bid on it, but ... I had never heard of this >> CDC product before. Does anyone have any idea if this was a real >> product, or just a way to poke IBM in the eye, or what? > >It's not a CDC product--it was made by IPL Systems, Inc. and marketed >by >CDC and supplied with CDC peripherals. I don't know if the agreement >yielded much in sales; by 1981, IPL was selling to end users under its >own brand. > >Olivetti also sold IPL iron. > >Yet another of several IBM mainframe clone makers. > >--Chuck -- Chris Elmquist
