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From: tdonahue@prost.bbn.com (Tim Donahue)
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Subject: Re: CDC/Cray Museum (was CDC 6600 ...)
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Can anyone shed some light on the origins of the CDC 1700?  The family
models included the 1704, 1714, 1774, and 1784 (System 17), and finally
the Cyber 18.  I believe Cyber 18s were used as RJE stations for SCOPE
systems (in particular, the 6400 at Lehigh, where I learned to
program...).  I later worked on various 1700 family machines in process
control systems at Exxon.  

By the way, the CDC Oil Movement Control systems at the Exxon refineries
in Linden, NJ and Baytown, TX, delivered in 1971-1973, remain
unrivalled...

(No jokes about polluting the Arthur Kill, please; the leaking
inter-refinery pipeline was controlled separately...).

Cheers,
Tim

tdonahue@bbn.com