9 Mar
2007
9 Mar
'07
2:17 p.m.
On Mar 9, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
I feel the need to ask - what is it that makes DEC
stuff so popular
and collectible, versus other machines of the same time period?
Generally they're equally as interesting, and often more so (IMHO)
due to all the quirks and design differences versus the more
mainstream DEC stuff.
So... why? More of a community? Better documentation? Better
hardware or software availability? What do collectors *do* with
their running DEC systems anyway?
I'm not knocking the DEC crowd in any way - just trying to work out
what it is that makes the systems so much more popular than
anything else of the time. I feel like I'm missing some vital piece
of info :-)
I think everyone has their own reasons. For me, it's a
combination of the PDP-11 being the first "real" computer I was
exposed to, and the fact that the way most of DEC's designs work just
"makes sense" to me in ways that many others don't.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL