[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 didn’t work.

[Nowhere Man]

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.

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.