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What did CPU time and disk space cost at a CDC 6600 Data Center?

In the mid-1970s,there was a big time sharing CDC service center in Waltham, MA. I'm curious what it cost to run computer jobs there. (My long winded story follows) In 1976, I had a summer job of &...
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Looking for any information related to the CDC 1604 Co-Op Monitor

The CDC 1604 Wikipedia page mentions a "Co-Op Monitor (developed by the users' organization)" used as the operating system. Has a contemporary description of its capabilities, e.g. a user ...
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What disk packs are compatible with the DEC RM05?

While the majority of DEC's PDP-11 systems used UNIBUS or QBUS based peripherals for storage, some of the larger PDP-11s, along with larger machines such as the DECsystem 20 and the VAX-11/780 used ...
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How many transistors in the CDC 1604?

The CDC 1604, released in 1960, was Seymour Cray's first supercomputer, and also one of the first computers made of transistors. (The IBM 7090 was released only the previous year.) How many ...
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CDC 6600 system console

The CDC 6600 system console was a vector drawing system with a single font that also provided a way of drawing simple graphics (Wikipedia). In simple terms how does this vector drawing system work? ...
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Was this FORTRAN "extension" originated by IBM?

This question has been prompted by a recent question about the assigned GOTO operator. It appears that some early FORTRAN implementations supported a non-obvious construct: using an indexed variable ...
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Why did the CDC 6600 expand the word size to 60 bits?

According to http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/cp0201.htm The CDC 1604 used 48-bit floating point with 11 bits exponent and 36 bits mantissa. There was also a double precision format (which I believe was ...
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