17 Feb
2021
17 Feb
'21
7:01 a.m.
This was getting long - so I decided to "top post". Sorry ;)
Here's Peter Samson's comments after I sent him a copy of the proposal:
"Well how about that! (It was never built and the hardware was never
designed.) So many ideas and proposals never saw the light of day. I utterly
forgot about the SC-4, whatever it was supposed to be."
Cheers,
Lyle
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On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 07:13:26 +0000
Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:
Phil Budne wrote:
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From: Lyle Bickley via cctalk <cctalk at
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I heard back from Fred Wright:
"Although I wasn't at SC in 1972, I'm pretty sure I would have heard of
the SC-4 if it had ever existed. The document you linked was just a
proposal, and I imagine that that's as far as it ever got. AFAIK, SC
didn't create any full-fledged computers between the SC-15 (1970) and
the SC-30 (1983)."
I contacted Peter Samson regarding a "SC-4" and this was his response:
"There was an SC-40 (made after my time there) which was a fast
PDP-10-compatible system. I don?t know of any SC-4 though."
The document that raised the question has his name and signature (or
the name and signature of *A* Peter R Samson) on it?
I suppose one could say that SC-4 might be a marketing term that an
engineer might have forgotten, or chosen to have forgotten, but Peter
Samson's title in the document is Director of Marketing!
The URL again:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/saltzer/Multics/MHP-Saltzer-060508/filedrawers/…