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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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Subject: Re:  YADS - Yet Another DECtape Story
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Date: Sat, 11-Feb-84 23:15:30 EST
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A lot of people didn't want to build kits, so Clark approached a local
firm that made plug-in boards, and got them to build the kits for the
fumble-fingered.  The outfit sold a few, got good responses, cleaned up
the design a bit (keeping the 12 bit format and 8 instructions) and,
viola`!  The PDP-8.  I think the outfit is still in business.
                                       Ed Nather
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Nice story, but the PDP-8 was a remake of the PDP-5, developed by
DEC for Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.  The LINC-8, If I remember
correctly, combined the instruction sets of the LINC and the PDP-8
under (software?) switch control. Later it turned into the PDP-12.
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Martin Taylor
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