The department at Kodak where I worked in the mid '80's bought one for circuit simulation; it sure was a different environment than openVMS. Water-cooled and wire-wrapped.
Our company used CDC Hawk drives heavily on the equipment we manufactured, needed 3-4 people to move them depending if they were shipped on their own or a floor cabinet, a massive 5+5MB storage at the time.
Those were the days when you'd have ear plugs in while working on a drive in a group of some others rattling away, I've had my daughters friends look at me as if I'm mad asking why I needed ear protection when working on a hard drive.
tilted-glass@reddit
The department at Kodak where I worked in the mid '80's bought one for circuit simulation; it sure was a different environment than openVMS. Water-cooled and wire-wrapped.
Terrible-Bear3883@reddit
Our company used CDC Hawk drives heavily on the equipment we manufactured, needed 3-4 people to move them depending if they were shipped on their own or a floor cabinet, a massive 5+5MB storage at the time.
Those were the days when you'd have ear plugs in while working on a drive in a group of some others rattling away, I've had my daughters friends look at me as if I'm mad asking why I needed ear protection when working on a hard drive.
ksuwildkat@reddit
Lady in blue is the only one actually getting anything done
Hjalfi@reddit
The one on the right is trying to figure out how to quit vi.
Fragholio@reddit
If I was on one of the other ones I'd be playing Hurkle or Wumpus like crazy.
Soft-Assistance6809@reddit
Good old CDC.
sixothree@reddit
Ahhh, nice and quiet.
MrWonderfulPoop@reddit
IIRC Cyber 180 design started just after Seymour Cray left CDC.
Still a cool system, just not “Cray Cool”.