F*ck a f*cking duck

[jim stephens]

Fred Cisin wrote:

>
>>  They had the stick man walking the dog program running
>>on the console lights of one of the 168's.
>>    
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>Would that be too low a resolution to qualify for "most unusual graphic
>display"?
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>
There was also an idle loop for the CDC 6800 (or 6700) that put a cdc 
"C" up in the
front panel lights while idle.  I saw a 6 way system at a company called 
DCC in Memphis
Tn, and it was amazing to see all the boxes periodically go idle and see 
the "C"
appear and then flicker out to a dull glow, then suddenly appear again.

The power bill for the front panels was a significant amount.  I imagine 
that the 168
was the most expensive, but I'd have to say the CDC OS (whatever it was) 
having
the "C" integrated into its idle loop was better than the 168 with a 
special program
to do the stick man.

Also on the 168, you had to dial up all the right registers to get the 
display,
on the CDC front panel, you always got it.

IIRC on the cdc it probably was on 10 rows of lights.  the 168 had more 
lights
across more rows for a larger display.

Jim