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From: dave@astra.necisa.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: pdp-11/55
Message-ID: <276@astra.necisa.oz>
Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 20:13:39 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 14 20:13:39 1987
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(This is in comp.unix.wizards, since:
1. It doesn't belong in comp.os.minix
2. We don't get comp.arch down-under.)

Anyway, my $AUS 0.02 (allow for currency conversion)

I'm told (by a DEC Field Circus person many years ago) that the 11/60
was a once-off deal, for some publishing house somewhere.  It was to
be a smart controller or something (blimey, the fore-runner of desk-top
publishing!  Needed a pretty big desk though...), but the deal fell through.
Said publisher went broke or something.

Anyway, DEC were stuck with a ware-house full of these things, so in true
American entrepreneurship, they were re-packaged and sold off.

I thought it was a nice machine, but then again, my previous machine
was an 11/40, and _anything_ was a step up from that!  I bemoaned the
lack of the SSR1 register (same as the 11/40), but what the heck, you
could do amazing things with the display register!  Used to impress
visitors, seeing it shift a `1' bit from side to side, show the contents
of the KA6 register (hands up all those who remember "ka6 = ..., aps = ...")
etc etc.

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