youtube video of a runnning XDS Sigma mainframe with lots of nice peripherals

Lee Courtney leec2124 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 3 10:34:35 CST 2015


"If I were king, there would be a Sigma running where the 1401 is at CHM."

You have my vote. Along with some time-sharing...

Lee C.

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:

> On 11/2/15 2:15 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
>
> Not just running condition.  100,000 pounds of gear, including the 9, 6,
>> and a
>> 7 that had been retired in the 90s, spares for all of them, the 8 running
>> disk
>> drives and 4 running tape drives, along with about 20 more disk drives
>> (the
>> older 50MB hydraulic units) from the 7.  Five 24' trucks, driven by Stan
>> and his
>> brothers from Flagstaff to Seattle.
>>
>>
> I am glad that LCM was able to save these systems.
> If I were king, there would be a Sigma running where the 1401 is at CHM.
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