24 Jul
2014
24 Jul
'14
9:13 a.m.
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- From: Philip Belben
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 10:18 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only
Subject: Re: Looking to get into a Mini Computer, PDP or something Like that
I definitely remember them, and yes, 32 bit minicomputers around the same time as early
VAX, Nova, Prime. But I don?t know anything else. Wikipedia says they were developed by
Interdata, which P-E acquired in 1973. And that SIMH supports these.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdata_7/32_and_8/32)
paul
There were lots of minicomputer makers. For
example, I've seen no
discussion on Varian minis and darned little on TI 990s or CDC 1700s, as
a start.
A name that I remember from advertisements in the 1980s (I don't think I
ever encountered a machine) was Perkin Elmer, who made 32-bit minis.
Does anyone recall them? The Wikipedia article concentrates on the much
more recent history of the corporation, but it does seem that, like HP,
their computers were a spinoff of their scientific instruments.