Random gallery of lovely old computer photos

Image: an IBM 360 computer from 1968 Seymour Cray's CDC 6600, from 1964. From an image gallery found on a Russian website: Link. All the text is in Cyrillic, I'm afraid I can't figure out who to credit. (thanks, WayneCo!)

Update: D'oh! I've been haaaad! Looks like the gallery is all ripped from the book Core Memory, which Pesco blogged here previously: Link. Apols.

[#1 posted by Anonymous , October 22, 2007 9:52 AM]

Just FYI, according to your own story from May (http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/15/core-memory-a-visual.html) and a Google image search, this is a CDC [Control Data Corp] 6600 console, not an IBM 360.

[#2 posted by Anonymous , October 22, 2007 9:53 AM]

Unfortunately that is a CDC6600. As a retired IBM Customer Engineer I worked on the entire IBM mainframe line from 1961 to 1987. The IBM machine is a couple of frames earlier with the picture that features a typewriter.
FWIW the 7030 was not strictly part of the 360 line. It was discrete component on card as opposed to (the first) integrated circuits on cards.

[#3 posted by Maggie Leber , October 22, 2007 9:54 AM]

erm...certainly *not* a System/360.

That is, I believe, a CDC 6600 or similar.

[#4 posted by cycle23 , October 22, 2007 10:00 AM]

Apols? I just vom'd in my own mou.

[#5 posted by Sinister Lollipop , October 22, 2007 10:02 AM]

The pic is from a book called "Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers."

Scott Hansen (ISO50) has a few other pics from the book posted on his blog
http://blog.iso50.com/?p=186

[#6 posted by iRoy , October 22, 2007 10:02 AM]

Its the pictures from the Time piece on Core Memory, i submitted the original article on the 13th of October.



http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1670168,00.html


The original gallery has proper descriptions on the individual pics:

"CDC 6600
For a time the fastest machine in the world, Control Data Corporation's 6600 machine was designed by noted computer architect Seymour Cray. It retained its speed crown until 1969, when Cray designed his next supercomputer."

[#7 posted by Xeni Jardin , October 22, 2007 10:26 AM]

Guys, thanks, the post has been updated with a correction and a link to the previous (correct) BB post.

[#8 posted by cycle23 , October 22, 2007 10:31 AM]

Their tenacity is apol'n.

[#9 posted by nex , October 22, 2007 10:39 AM]

I think it's great that there are people here who can actually figure out that this is a CDC 6600 and that the got Xeni to correct the article; I just can't resist pointing out that the picture is labelled perfectly correctly in the original post linked above, no extra cleverness required ;-p

The link from Iroy (#5 ... or is it iRoy? we hates the all-capsies ...) is super-great, though; thanks for sharing!

[#10 posted by devophill , October 22, 2007 2:20 PM]

Only the nth example I've seen of a russian site posting a pile of images pilfered from elsewhere. I wonder why that is?

[#11 posted by spacemarmot , October 22, 2007 6:32 PM]

@DEVOPHILL: ...perhaps because Russians aren't hobbled by delusional notions about "owning" information?

[#12 posted by Fistynuts , October 23, 2007 4:39 AM]

At least you can make some money from that Amazon link.