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From: hoffman@pitt.UUCP
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Subject: Re: When was the PDP 8 announced?
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Date: Fri, 25-May-84 11:11:31 EDT
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According to the book "Computer Engineering:  A DEC view of Hardware
Systems Design", the PDP-8 was first *shipped* in April of 1965.  I
would then assume that the announcement was made as much as a year
earlier, on May 21, 1964.

-- 
Bob Hoffman
Pitt Computer Science