PDP-11/44 boot prompt - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Nov 1998



That's right. It's a personal computer, but not because someone has it
in their house. I left out the model number on 'PDP' because I'm not
familiar with them, but several said that their PDP-11/?? were personal 
computers just because they had it in their house.
...
 > I consider anything that was marketed as a
personal computer a
> personal computer. I would not consider the PDP a personal computer  if
...
   I had one
because it's not a personal computer. 
By your own criteria, the original PDP-8 *is* a personal computer.  DEC
specifically marketed it based on the it being small enough that  someone
...
 could transport it in their automobile (specifically, a
Volkswagen),  and
...
 cheap enough that someone could afford it.
 
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