18 Apr
2007
18 Apr
'07
6:49 p.m.
On Apr 18, 2007, at 7:42 AM, Barry Watzman wrote:
The H-11 was offered from 1977 (when Heath entered the
computer
business)
until about 1981 or 1982 ... I don't remember the exact date.
While the
hardware was nice if you liked DEC architecture (it was just a
standard
LSI-11 made by DEC), it was a terrible system for a computer
hobbyist at the
time. There was very little software, and both the hardware and the
software was expensive.
Eh, there was tons of software available...just not in the same
places as for the microcomputers, and because of that, perhaps not as
easily available. DECUS was very well-established by that time and
had a huge amount of PDP-11 software running the gamut from games to
chemical analysis.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL