To: dennisw
This kind of ancient technology is probably almost impossible to hack, internet or no internet. Binary assembly code, and who knows if the source is even available. I remember guys debugging operating systems on CDC 7600 “supercomputers” by attaching homemade hardware rigs to register units to figure out why their code didn’t work.
48 posted on
04/27/2014 9:27:15 PM PDT by
catnipman
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To: catnipman
This kind of ancient technology is probably almost impossible to hack, internet or no internet. Binary assembly code, and who knows if the source is even available. I remember guys debugging operating systems on CDC 7600 supercomputers by attaching homemade hardware rigs to register units to figure out why their code didnt work.
IIRC, I think they used the CDC 7600 to make computer graphics for the TV networks back in the 1970's. There was a rotating "N" for NBC in the mid 1970's that they used a CDC 7600 to make it with. It had a main processor and up to 12 subprocessors, an interesting and capable machine but it was water cooled.
51 posted on
04/28/2014 5:31:16 PM PDT by
Nowhere Man
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