Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: YADS - Yet Another DECtape Story Message-ID: <705@dciem.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Feb-84 23:15:30 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.705 Posted: Sat Feb 11 23:15:30 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Feb-84 01:27:34 EST References: <99@utastro.UUCP> Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 16 ============ 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 ============ 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. -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt