I wonder how long it took them to "figure it out"? I seems that the
family-plan dates to April 1969.
June 1970 seems to be generally quoted as the introduction date for the
PDP-11/20. And then June 1972 for the 11/10.
My PDP-11 is labeled as "S-386" and dated 9/23/70, which I guess makes it
fairly early in the production run (but I do wonder what the initial
manufacturing rate was given the relative riskiness of this new
architecture). Anyone have S# and dates for "plain 11" vs. 11/20-marked for
comparison?
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Subject: Re: PDP-11/20 vd one that just says pdp 11 what are the date
differences?? OEM?
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 03:25:36AM -0500, Paul Birkel wrote:
Which has always struck me as a bit odd, since the
PDP-11 family was
designed to be just that, a family. So you'd think that "marketing"
would have kept that in mind when designing the first front panel label
...
Indeed, and it's just something I've "heard" so there might actually be
another reason.
/P