Cobra Judy - USNS Observation Island

[Alan Anderson]

Does anyone know what became of the OI. I had heard it went into
mothballs again but now I wonder. Jitze Couperus mentioned that
CDC was looking for someone "with Cyber maintenance skills who
was willing to spend n months per year on a tub floating
somewhere in the far east...". This sounds like it might be the
OI in a new incarnation.

[John A. Stovall]

Post by Alan Anderson
Does anyone know what became of the OI. I had heard it went into
mothballs again but now I wonder. Jitze Couperus mentioned that
CDC was looking for someone "with Cyber maintenance skills who
was willing to spend n months per year on a tub floating
somewhere in the far east...". This sounds like it might be the
OI in a new incarnation.

No, OI is alive and well. I know one of the CE's currently on her.
She was never moth balled but did have some major refits about 2 years
ago.


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[Paul C. Smith]

Post by Alan Anderson
Does anyone know what became of the OI. I had heard it went into
mothballs again but now I wonder. Jitze Couperus mentioned that
CDC was looking for someone "with Cyber maintenance skills who
was willing to spend n months per year on a tub floating
somewhere in the far east...". This sounds like it might be the
OI in a new incarnation.

As far as I know, they're still active; I think I would have heard if
they had shut down. The lastest email that I received from Jane Jacaruso
(the software support analyst on the boat) was dated 04/23/2002,
about a year and a half ago.

It's probably safe to say that they have the oldest hardware and software
of anyone actively running NOS.

Hardware: Two CYBER 175 mainframes, half-track 844-4x disks, 66x tapes,
580 printers

Software: NOS 1.2-439 (NOS 1, Release 3)

Both hardware and software date from about 1976 and were never upgraded,
although I did some Y2K software patches for them in 1998.

Paul C. Smith
NOS Support
Syntegra

[Bob Lidral]

Post by Paul C. Smith

Post by Alan Anderson
Does anyone know what became of the OI. I had heard it went into
mothballs again but now I wonder. Jitze Couperus mentioned that
CDC was looking for someone "with Cyber maintenance skills who
was willing to spend n months per year on a tub floating
somewhere in the far east...". This sounds like it might be the
OI in a new incarnation.

As far as I know, they're still active; I think I would have heard if
they had shut down. The lastest email that I received from Jane Jacaruso
(the software support analyst on the boat) was dated 04/23/2002,
about a year and a half ago.
It's probably safe to say that they have the oldest hardware and software
of anyone actively running NOS.
Hardware: Two CYBER 175 mainframes, half-track 844-4x disks, 66x tapes,
580 printers
Software: NOS 1.2-439 (NOS 1, Release 3)
Both hardware and software date from about 1976 and were never upgraded,
although I did some Y2K software patches for them in 1998.
Paul C. Smith
NOS Support
Syntegra

Google knows all :-)

Apparently the OI is still operating, though not much longer? See
http://www.raytheon.com/businesses/rids/briefs/cobrajudy.html news
release dated December 18, 2003.


Bob Lidral
l i d r a l at a l u m dot m i t dot e d u

[Jitze Couperus]

On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 09:07:05 GMT, Bob Lidral

Post by Bob Lidral
Google knows all :-)
Apparently the OI is still operating, though not much longer? See
http://www.raytheon.com/businesses/rids/briefs/cobrajudy.html news
release dated December 18, 2003.

While Raytheon may have the replacement contract, it looks like
Syntegra (formerly Control Data) may be subcontacting for some of it.
I say this because I read in the press release:

"...we are committed to providing innovative, Customer-driven
solutions that meet the transformational requirements of..."

Anybody skilled in the science of language fingerprinting will
immediately recognize the source of this poetry.

Jitze