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From: zombie@uucp (Mike York)
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Subject: Re: Looking for a really odd computer
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Date: 10 Oct 90 16:14:02 GMT
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In article <61237@fuquad.ccur.com> simon@fuquad.UUCP (Simon Rosenthal) writes:
>Not to mention its descendants, the PDP-9 and PDP-15. I remember there being
>a whole roomful of these in use at Massachusetts General Hospital (running
>MUMPS), as late as 1983/4.

We retired our 14 PDP-15's in December 1988.  They served us well for 10 
years.  We used them for an interactive graphics application to prepare 
illustrations for airplane maintenance, repair and operation manuals.  We 
started looking for a replacement platform in 1983, but didn't find anything 
that could pick as fast us the PDP-15's (which had vector refresh monitors) 
until SGI came out with the 2400T.  We now have 120 SGI 4D/25's.  As much as 
I like 'em, there are still times that I miss programming those 15's in 
assembler ;^).

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