* Posts by Amotz Anner

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Remembering the CDC 6600

Amotz Anner

CDC machines.

I worked on CDC machines deom about 1969 at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem as a System Programmer (an exalted position, enabling one to get System Time during the night - thats when I learned to drive while sleeping every other second).

Later I became a CDC Israel employee as a Systems Analyst (the same, but the nights were distributed over several sites).

If anybody is interested I've got any number of stories about these machines, such as the procedure for manually polishing the disk surfaces after a head crash, or how the machine was deadstarted using a 12x12 array of toggles.

It was a good solid foundation, still serving me well today.