European Space Agency had one, I think 6 processors.
The computer hall & contents burnt out the day after it came off lease.
Not very fond memories of the beast. Had circuit boards with dead & alive
ic's if anyone remembers them.
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Alex,
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There were a few L66 or DPS8 in the UK. Around 100 installations I believe. In the North West as well as Refuge Assurance and Bidston there were a few, ranging from a 4-cpu monster at Littlewoods down to Simon Engineering¡¯s L66/05.
Octel Engineering who made the lead additives for petrol, also had a small machine, while Manchester City Council had a larger machine, I think a L66/60. The other one I remember was Allied Bakeries.
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Dave
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On the late eighties DPS8 was a common mainframe in Spain and France.
In 1982, DPS6? was a lower level and in fact there were a 32 bits running GCOS6, and a low end 16 bit cpu with only 1 MB addressable without virtual memory, in other words, equal to a 8086 Intel, but a lot more expensive...
