I'd say everyone should look at the TX0/1/2 and other earlyb solid state
(or mostly so) computers to see where some ideas come from.
The rest of the machines represent ideas that were adopted, CDC160 (or was
it cray?) was the first truely little machine, the PDP-8 embodied that.
The idea of a monolithic backplane is not uniquely DEC and so on.
Allison