The "FIRST PC" and personal timelines (Was: And what were the 80s

The video display didnt come with all PDP-8/e computers as a standard feature. PDP-8/e systems were Minicomputers, typically rack mounted. And yes, i realize some cpu units were integrated into small tabletop lab units, it still stretches the imagination to refer to a particular gutted down configuration of a minicomputer, as a microcomputer. I would think that either a raster graphics capable monitor would have to come with the computer, or it would have to use a TV as its standard console (with the video display circuitry built-in as standard feature). Sure, there is always going to be some person who manages to buy a Sun 3/50 without a monitor, and uses it for a headless server, but for the purposes of this particular qualification, a sun 3/50 does come with video display built in as a standard feature, and even a headless one has that feature, unless you the purchaser removed it somehow. -Lawrence LeMay