honeywell had one PDP-1
they probably had 100 engineers using it or designing for it. I don't
know how many had Dec manuals, but I have the engineering notes of a
fellow who had both the original documents and copies.
they were doing a variety of projects, and moved on with other PDP's
with their subsequent work, but started with a lot of people using the
PDP as a potential asset. Some of the memos have fairly long cc: lists,
and I know several seem to have been managers, so the 100 might be on
the high side, but there were a lot of managers with minions on the list
in 62 or 63 for the info.
I don't agree bullshit, but agree with Bill's somewhat description. Who
knows how many will jump out of dad's or grandpa's pile, or get burned?
I recently rescued some Lunar Orbitor 1 photographs, and may get some
other artifacts, so something as mundane as PDP1 documents must rank
below that when the people who go thru estates see things. (saying if
they missed space stuff, we are probably way behind that).
Jim
Yeah, what with all the gazillions of PDP-1s that
were built.
I call "bullshit".
-Dave