17 Feb
2003
17 Feb
'03
2:57 a.m.
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 16:08, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I remembered the OEM part. I was thinking the 11/10 came out
right after the 11/20. Perhaps you are right. That was a little
before my time. My first exposure to -11s was in 1984. We used an
11/04 to bench-test our products, an 11/24 for the accounting department
(with *4* RL02s), an 11/34a for software development (RSTS and RSX-11),
and an 11/23 or two for other purposes lost to time.
That was *many* years after the 11/20 came out.
My introduction to PDP-11s (and PDP-10s) was in school. The notable
introductions while I was there were: 11/34, KL10, and the 11/780 (we
had s/n 1). We had gobs of 11/40s and 11/20s (even had a few PDP-11s -
no other designation ie early 11/20s).
C. Gordon Bell had a chair in the EE department while I was there too
(though you didn't see him much -- something about this computer company
up in MA).
BTW anyone know where I can find a set of manuals for BLISS-11? It's
what I primarily programmed in (that and SAIL and eventually 'C') while
in school. If I'm feeding the nostaliga bug, I might was well do the
software as well as the hardware.
--
TTFN - Guy