On 09/06/2015 07:54 PM, Mark Linimon wrote:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-197X-RARE-CONTROL-DATA-AD-OMEGA-480-370-COMPATIBLE-ALTERNATIVE-Q-/271967493965?hash=item3f52869f4d
Not that I'm going to bid on it, but ... I had never heard of this
CDC product before. Does anyone have any idea if this was a real
product, or just a way to poke IBM in the eye, or what?
It's not a CDC product--it was made by IPL Systems, Inc. and marketed by
CDC and supplied with CDC peripherals. I don't know if the agreement
yielded much in sales; by 1981, IPL was selling to end users under its
own brand.
Olivetti also sold IPL iron.
Yet another of several IBM mainframe clone makers.
--Chuck
