Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1a 12/4/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: YADS - Yet Another DECtape Story Message-ID: <1702@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Feb-84 17:59:51 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1702 Posted: Fri Feb 10 17:59:51 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 23:29:22 EST References: <16462@sri-arpa.UUCP> <99@utastro.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 16 > A lot of people didn't want to build (LINC) 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. Actually, DEC *did* get its start building plug-in boards, but they built their first computer - the PDP-1 - about a year after their start. The PDP-5 was the original DEC 12-bit computer; the PDP-8 was the next generation of same. Later, they built a machine called the LINC-8, which consisted either of a LINC and a PDP-8 in the same cabinet, or a processor which pretended it was a LINC and a PDP-8 in the same cabinet (I don't remember which). Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy