31 Oct
2016
31 Oct
'16
2:12 p.m.
In a message dated 10/31/2016 1:41:28 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu writes:
From: Ed Sharpe
I wonder if the pdp-11 was just called pdp-11 at t
that point or was a
pdp-11/20 like we have
Others have better info on this than me...
at this time point they got their PDP 11 what did it
say on the front
panel I wonder?
I'm going to _guess_ that it was the earlier caption; I definitely recall
reading somewhere (maybe that history thing I already provided a link to)
that when the PDP-11/20 first arrived, DEC didn't have a disk drive for it,
and so it sat in a corner for some months (running some chess problem)
until
the disk arrived. So that argues that it was a very early production
machine.
Noel
Noel - OK that is what I also read.... so probably would have said
PDP-11 on the front panel not 11/20 if it was that early if we
subscribe to the theory that the ones labeled 11 only were before the 11/20
I do wonder if there are any photograph of the system they used at
the get go of the PDP-11 use? Need a photo that has definite date
info....
yes, the systems are the same but some of this is important as I
do the display cards for the 11/20 we have here at SMECC
Thx Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)