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In article <54852@bbn.COM> tdonahue@prost.bbn.com (Tim Donahue) writes:
>Can anyone shed some light on the origins of the CDC 1700?  The family
>models included the 1704, 1714, 1774, and 1784 (System 17), and finally
>the Cyber 18.  I believe Cyber 18s were used as RJE stations for SCOPE
>systems  ...

More nostalgia ... The 1700 was CDC's first 8-bit byte /ASCII computer,
released around 1970. It had 16K (later 32K) of 16-bit words, and was
housed in a box as big as a mainframe (6'x8'x2'). It was intended for
use as a process control computer in oil and chemical industry, power
grids, etc., and was quite popular.
The MP-17 was a militarized version which was later developed into the
SC-17, or 1784, or System 17 (all more or less the same thing). This
actually had integrated circuits instead of single elements.
The next generation was the Cyber 18, still software compatible, of which
various special purpose versions were development ; like the 734, which
was a remote batch entry station, which could also emulate the IBM2780
and was thus sold as the CDC 27801 ; the 2550, the (in)famous communication
front end for the Cyber series ; and the MCU (maintenance control unit)
for the Cyber 205.
All of these boxes (except the MP17) I have had to struggle with over the
last seventeen years. 
Now if I really want to talk of bygone glory, how about a CDC3200 with MSOS4
(foreground/background, locally developed printer spooling, realtime add-ons,
etc.)?

Daan Sandee                                           sandee@scri1.scri.fsu.edu
Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052  (904) 644-7045