30 Jun
2020
30 Jun
'20
5:57 p.m.
On Jun 30, 2020, at 7:38 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
That's interesting.
DEC at one point used that same number for the VAX-11/780. I once at DECUS was shown a
secret document which was the instruction list (similar in form to the way it appeared on
the "VAX code card"). The document described it as being for the PDP-11/85.
I think that was at DECUS Chicago, 1977 perhaps, and I think the person who showed it to
me was the attendee from Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI -- which later became
a company with the same initials but a different name). I never saw anything more along
those lines until the official announcement with the real name, but I'm pretty sure
about that memory.
paul
On 30/06/2020 16:44, Kyle Owen via cctalk wrote:
> Happy birthday to the 370! Looks like it was released to the press on 30
> June 1970.
>
> https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PR370.html
>
Well, actually, IBM released the first 370 in 1968, only they didn't want
to tell anybody too soon.
So, they camouflaged it as a new 360 model, the /85, ...