"James M. Knox" wrote in message
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote in
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I wrote my senior project on a CDC-4800, I don't think you can beat
that. A real "main frame" computer.

Actually, that's way newer than most of the ones I worked on. Heck, it
had
RTL IC's and (if I recall correctly) those wierd back-to-back cards. Not
a
vacuum tube in sight.

The part that was instructive about the CDC4800 mainframe was that it was
built on a frame similar to a telephone frame. The original I/O device was
a card reader, but there was tape for it by the 1970s.