On 7/2/19 4:55 AM, Nigel Williams wrote: > On 2 Jul 2019, at 1:34 pm, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Anyone know what hardware was at NASA Ames in the late 70s? I've >> got some tapes from there and would like to avoid guessing. > Well excitingly it was home to the Illiac IV supercomputer! supported > by a Burroughs B6700 and DEC PDP-10, both would have had tape drives. > The Illiac IV arrived at NASA Ames in 1975 and was decommissioned in > 1982 so it covers your time period. > > Are there any annotations on the tape covers?
I knew about the Illiac--I was acquainted with a few people on the project. I suspect that the tapes are far more pedestrian than that--they're almost certainly 7-track. Beyond that, nothing on the labels that could be considered to be meaningful. I'm wondering if these might be Univac 1100 series tapes. I'll know more when I get a chance to take a look at the things in a bit more detail --Chuck
