16 Jun
2009
16 Jun
'09
12:22 p.m.
From: Roger Holmes
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 2:18 AM
My machine was killed off by the introduction of the
360, i.e. its
older.
The ICT1301 was announced 1959 and my one (the first to leave the
factory) was shipped in 1962.
The IBM 360 was I understand announced in 1965, probably shipped quite
soon after.
The System/360 was announced in April, 1964, but first ship was not until
1965. In contrast, the DEC PDP-6 was announced in March, 1964, first ship
in June, 1964.[1]
On the other hand, the last PDP-6 in existence was destroyed by the Computer
Museum in Boston about 20 years ago, so you're one up there.
[1] Only 23 were built, but there were thousands of the follow-on PDP-10
in various models.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
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Seattle, WA 98104
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