8 May
2010
8 May
'10
6:38 p.m.
On May 8, 2010, at 9:30 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
Apparently other people have different ideas of why it's
important. Lack of commonality and lack of influence in the future
are only two possible things that one might find important.
Why am I a PDP-11 fanatic? Because I LIKE them, nothing more. I
couldn't care less about the fact that it was an influential
architecture with common implementations. This is just an example.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Wow .... with
20 seconds to go, it jumped from 9900 to 20100, then
with
five seconds to go it jumped to 25600, then ended.
I can appreciate some degree of added value for this particular
unit giving
it's direct providence to Blankenbaker, and as much I might think
the Kenbak is
neat for technical reasons such as a minimal processor made from
SSI/MSI
devices, bit-serial architecture, and so on, this is one where I
really scratch
my head over the dollar value people are placing on them, given
their obscurity
in their day and relative lack of influence on computing development.
(just MHO ...)