Artifact Details

Description

Dave Resnick has a long history of working on high-end computer systems. Before graduating as an electrical engineer, worked on electrical maintenance in the Army. This included maintaining a system that included point-contact transistors. Dave worked for Control Data on 6600s and 7600s systems and on the Star-100 as a logic designer and system engineer. Worked for ETA
Systems in multiple areas including leading the small engineering group that did the revisions to the ETA-10 design to make the Piper version. (The Piper was air-cooled, rather than using the liquid nitrogen cooling system of the standard ETA supercomputer.)

There is also a 'war story' about how Seymour Cray helped fix a problem in an early 6600 that resulted in the scope probe that he was using being ‘installed' into the machine, and was delivered and used by the customer.

Date

2018-08-09

Contributor

Resnick, David, Interviewee

Spicer, Dag, Interviewer

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountain View, CA

Extent

24 p.

Format

PDF

Category

Transcription

Subject

CDC 6600 (Computer); CDC 7600 (Computer); Star-100; ETA-10; Piper; Cray, Seymour; Cray Research, Inc. (CRI); Control Data Corporation; ETA Systems

Collection Title

CHM Oral History Collection

Credit

Computer History Museum

Lot Number

X8751.2019