22 Jul
2012
22 Jul
'12
12:22 a.m.
Tomorrow I will see what more he remembers. He mentions they preferred the PDP-11 because
it had a keypad instead of toggle switches, and a disk drive with removable platters. His
recollection is that they were about 18" across.
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On 2012-07-22, at 3:05 AM, Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu> wrote:
Dad says it
was in 1976, at Ruttan mine owned by Sheritt-Gordon in Leaf
Rapids, Manitoba. In '78 they replaced it with a PDP-11.
Would be interesting to know more about it's software, hardware config,
etc.
De