16 Oct
2002
16 Oct
'02
10:23 a.m.
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Huw Davies wrote:
Geez. I can hardly remember what a DECsystem-10 looks
like and I've got
photos! Half of Australia's red wine production over the last 10 years has
passed through my house (and me :-) so the long term memory has been
replaced with tannins....
Your memory may go but all the anti-oxidants in the wine will keep your
heart pumping blood to your empty brain, pulsating with faded glimpses of
past glory ;)
All I can remember is a largish (blue?) slightly
circular console (say 4 to
6 feet long) with switches and lights (no CRTs) and possibly a separate
room filled with valves. This would make some sense for a system installed
in the early to mid-60s.
My first guess: a PDP-1.
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-dec-pdp-1.jpg
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