<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mon, 12 Aug 2024 01:16:41 -0700,"Erik E. Fair" <<a href="mailto:fair-tuhs@netbsd.org">fair-tuhs@netbsd.org</a>> wrote:</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">The main campus computer center was in the basement, but they charged by the CPU/second, so only classes used those systems - in my day (1980-1983), the computer center had a CDC 6400 and six or seven DEC PDP-11/70s.</span></div></blockquote><br></div><div>The CDC 6400 finally went away in September 1982:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">September 3rd, 1982</font></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><font face="Courier New">Memo to: Computing Affairs Staff</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">From: M.Stuart Lynn, Director</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">Subject: CDC 6400 Departure</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New">The CDC 6400 is no more. ...</font></div><div><br></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><a href="https://caltss.computerhistory.org/archive/820903-cdc-6400-departure-msl.pdf">https://caltss.computerhistory.org/archive/820903-cdc-6400-departure-msl.pdf</a></div></blockquote><br></body></html>