At 03:11 PM 8/29/99 , Mark Klein wrote:
>Nick writes:
>
> >Maybe I am wrong here, but there must have been earlier
> >brochures.   I don't
> >think the 2888 disk drive (an Oem drive made by CDC?) was
> >available on the
> >earliest 3000's.
>
>My two earliest brochures are the pre-CX days when the machine was
>called the System/3000:

OK!  I admit I'm just a wet-behind-the-ears youngster since I've only been
using the 3000 since 1980.  :)

>Here's a trivia challenge:
>
>Which of the following were legitimate MPE commands, and
>what do they do?


Nothing useful these days.  ;)

BTW, there's what looks very much like a 7970 9-track tape drive in the
11/71 pictures Wirt has on his web site.
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Jeff Woods
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