26 Feb
2003
26 Feb
'03
2:40 a.m.
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
I would guess:
Factor of ~1000 speed difference.
I/O flexibility.
The Monrobot would be too slow for lots of lab and process control
applications that the PDP8 handles easily
I wonder how many other computers have had an
article devoted
to them in the New Yorker magazine:
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?010528fr_archive02
An interesting article. The original sale price in 1960 was $24,500.
The unit also ran off of standard line voltage (110) and required no
additional cooling. It could be moved from any location to any location
and used just about anywhere.
So this begs the question, why did the PDP-8 create the "mini-computer"
class and not this or other machines with similar attributes?
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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