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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: A piece of History...
Message-ID: <11392@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 6 May 90 21:56:30 GMT
References: <2732@husc6.harvard.edu> <11461@blia.BLI.COM> <1308.26442bec@vmsa.technion.ac.il>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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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."

Come on - I've got the nice ancient multi-colored PDP-11/20 manual, the PDP-8
manuals that describe the original PDP-8 and the new economy PDP-8/S and a
nice large format PDP-6 Manual.  All this attests to little more than my
qualifications as a pack-rat.  Think more in terms of what those olde machines
meant - huge amounts of core (4k) that it was almost inconceivable to fill up
with assembly code, bogus fortran subsets, 32K-byte disk drives, monster 128K
dectapes and the conforting clunk and rhythm of ASR-33's.

It's also amusing the think of some of the software features and attributes
that are still with us and to comtemplate what the world would look like if
the PDP-6/10 hadn't been graced with those 4 superfluous bits - imagine no
PDP-11's or Vaxen and a single product line of PDP-10 super/subsets reaching
back into the mists of time...

-- 
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