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From: rnewman@dasys1.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: LA and the IBM 1130
Message-ID: <196@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Jan-87 14:42:54 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 16 14:42:54 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Jan-87 06:08:07 EST
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Reply-To: rnewman@dasys1.UUCP (Richard S. Newman)
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In article <2454@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> brian@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Brian Kantor) writes:
>In article <951@phred.UUCP> artm@phred.UUCP (Art "Faster! Faster!" Marriott) writes:
>>The basic 1130 had all of 8K of core memory, not 16K.



Did you guys ever see, use, or hear of the PDP-7? A souped up version of
one was the first machine to ever to run UNIX, back when it was first developed
by you know who. I have a friend who had a had friend who one day came by
with a truck and stored one in his garage. Ten years latter my friend decided
he wanted to use his garage again, so we spend a day moving it out and back 
into a very big truck to bring it to a scrap metal dealer.
     The machine is as big as a limo, it only has 4k of some strange sort of
memory, it boots on paper tape, runs on DEC tape, and contains no IC's of any
kind; it's completely made of transistor logic. It has a speed knob, so you can
choose your setting: slow, very slow, or super-slow. Its console is a teletype
terminal of some strange variety, its visual output comes on a round screen 
which looks like an antique television set. It also has a light pen.
      Putting UNIX on such a monster was quite an accomplishment.


-Richard Newman