*Yes, Chuck, the CDC Omega 480 is real*. Control Data sold 240 Omega
480 systems. It competed with the IBM 370-145 and 370-148. This
computer was totally plug-compatible including operating system and
software. We could install a system on a weekend and it was operational
Monday morning. Very successful product.
I was the person who discovered this computer and brought it to CDC.
The CDC Omega 480 was announced at the National Computer Conference in
Dallas Texas in 1976. In 1973 Control Data created a division
designated to compete with IBM - Peripheral Systems. I was one of five
individuals organizing that division. By 1975 Peripheral Systems grew
to almost 500 employees. Our market was worldwide.
Ron Tetu
*Chris Elmquist* chrise at pobox.com
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On September 6, 2015 11:36:05 PM CDT, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com
<http://www.classiccmp.org/mailman/listinfo/cctalk>> wrote:
/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./
