Control Data Systems

The Fysisch Laboratorium TNO, predecessor of the current TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory, used various Control Data Corporation (CDC) systems as well as systems of other brands for their main computational efforts during the period 1970 - 1990.
This computer history section contains technical aspects (based upon recollections by operators and system programmers) of these systems as well as on photographs and old documentation.
The computer history of the TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory is currently only available in Dutch.

Note: you can click on most photographs to enlarge them.

System software

6000 series systems and its successors
Network Operating System/Batch Environment (NOS/BE) and its predecessor SCOPE
Network Operating System/Virtual Environment (NOS/VE)

Hardware and architecture

Other historical computer information

System 17/Cyber 18 peripheral equipment
Relative performance Cyber systems
DEC peripheral equipment
ETA10 computers
Ferranti 1600B equipment
Relative computational speed of old TNO-FEL systems

(with special thanks to Mark Riordan for the basis for some of these CDC hardware and software pages)

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25/02/1998