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Coffee table made from an original 26-inch hard drive platter from a 1967 Control Data Corporation 6603 Disk File Controller

50 posted on 04/01/2012 8:00:59 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro
Here's a CDC 3800 console. The CDC 3000 series computers from Control Data Corporation were mid-1960s follow-ons to the CDC 1604 and CDC 924 systems. Over time, a range of machines were produced - divided into the 'upper 3000 series' and the 'lower 3000 series'. CDC phased out production of the 3000 series in the early 1970s. The 3000 series were the 'cash cows' of Control Data during the 1960s.

That coffee table you posted was likely a peripheral to this main frame.

68 posted on 04/01/2012 8:50:54 AM PDT by shove_it (just undo it)
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That is VERY interesting.


84 posted on 04/01/2012 9:37:27 AM PDT by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
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To: martin_fierro
The disk is from th drive not the drive controller
..i was an FE and replaced hundred's of crashed disk platters ...
107 posted on 04/01/2012 11:21:31 AM PDT by tophat9000 (American is Barack Oaken)
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First computer??? I had was a Kpro and it came with a dog collar and flea powder.
135 posted on 04/01/2012 10:56:15 PM PDT by BooBoo1000 (I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds my future.,)
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