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From: hascall@cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
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Subject: Re: A piece of History...
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Date: 6 May 90 17:40:08 GMT
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In article <1308.26442bec@vmsa.technion.ac.il> ben@vmsa.technion.ac.il writes:
}> I can beat that! Pulling down my 1973-1974 Peripherals Handbook, I found this
}> table of current disks on page 3-4:
}RK05? I still have a couple of them running!!
}I can still beat that. My museum pieces include a copy of the 1972 pdp11/45
}processor handbook, and the gem: a 1968 (yes!!) small computer handbook, that
}includes a "detailed description of the new pdp-8/I computer."

    How about a copy of "DIGITAL MODULES" dated 1962 (the year I was born!!)
    which has a section tucked away at the very end called "Other Digital
    Products" which extoles the virtutes of the PDP-1 and the PDP-4.

John Hascall
Iowa State Univ.