70's view of Army Radar Installation (with computer gear)

[Dan Roganti]

William Donzelli wrote:
>> The last (that we know of) government Cyber was taken out of service in
>>  2007.  Admittedly that was a 8x0 series and, if it had a card reader, I
>>  doubt it was a 415, but still, it was a real live Cyber running real
>>  apps...  (And, for that matter, NOS was maintained as late as 2000 --
>>  there was a Y2K patch for it.)
>>     
>
> Certainly there were a few Cybers still going in the early 2000s.
>
> This "last" one - was it a shipboard installation? If so, do you know
> which ship?
>   

There's a complete installation from 1978 on 2 acres with two CDC Cyber 
840 computers and almost two dozen SEL machines at Vandenberg AFB in 
support of WSMC. this is was built in accord with the SALT treaty of the 
70's. My friend over there was still providing support through his 
company for this facility up until as recent as Sep until the contract 
expired, and never renewed. He mentioned they're going to scrap all the 
machines there. I would think that CHM would get their hands on 
something before going to the scrapper. There's a couple of photos he 
had sent me in the past here on my webpage.
http://www2.applegate.org/~ragooman/computers_mini_gallery_tips.html

=Dan

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