Talk:CDC 3000 series

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Unsourced[edit]

I just tagged this article as "unsourced." I think the article is factual based on my own knowledge of the 3000 series, but Wikipedia is supposed to cite the source.

I will add some additional unsourced material myself, but I will at least feel guilty about it.

3300 vs. 3600[edit]

The article says "The 3300 CPU could execute around 1 million instructions per second (1 MIP), giving it supercomputer status in 1965." Shouldn't that be the 3600? Riordanmr 02:49, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is a source that has CDC 3300 in the title but opens by saying that the 3600 was the first 3000, and that it was 48 bits ... 1 MIPs. Clearly the 3300 was 24 bits. Since the rest of the article is about the 3300, my current WP:OR is ... here's the basis of the CDC 3000 series statement, which I'll now correct, including citing the source. Pi314m (talk) 20:42, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Missing Specifications[edit]

The "Specifications" table is missing entries for both the 3800 model & the 3500 model. (Also the 3150, but I believe that was just a slight modification of the 3100.) I'm tempted to add lines to the table for them, but they would be mostly empty until someone can find cites for the specs. Is that an appropriate thing to do here? T bonham (talk) 23:23, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Name pronunciation[edit]

I have heard the name pronounced incorrectly many times on YouTube. Michigan State University installed their thirty-six hundred in the summer of 1963. I lived next to MSU. I was there in 1963 as a 12 year old and I remember this name with the same fidelity that I remember the name John Fitzgerald Kennedy. I have looked but cannot find a printed reference. But "thirty-six hundred" is the way the Michigan State University professors spoke of it. One of these professors was the father of my best friend, and I had dinner at his house every week. My friend was sent to the principal's office for lying and saying that the CDC thirty-six hundred could to 10,000 additions a second. The result was that my class was taken on a field trip to the "machine room" and saw the CDC thirty-six hundred. We were shown the core memory, and the arithmetical logic unit, both stand-alone cabinets the size of a refrigerator. Nick Beeson (talk) 18:31, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]