On 5/16/18 9:13 AM, jos via cctalk wrote: > Visited an older collector recently, and in his shed he has a strange thing, > labeled CDC, that somehow looks like a drum > memory, but then again not ( drum looks too small to be usefull ) > > The controller that goes with is a transistor based monster on countless > small pluginboards. >
If you get back over there, try to find CDC ID tags on the drum and controller. There would normally be a model number badge somewhere on the outside. Being that there was a 350 paper tape reader, I'm guessing its for one of their smaller systems, maybe an early model 1700
