No such thing as "the PDP" [was RE: Typesafety versus Worse is Better - was Re: Fwd: is there any word processing software for the pdp11?]

[Dale H. Cook]

At 1247 AM 12/4/2014, Mark Wickens wrote:

>I would argue that only the original PDP-1 could rightly be called "the PDP"

Speaking of that pioneering machine, does anyone know if there are any plans by the CHM to try to make the MIT engineering prototype operable? I last saw it in use at MIT about 45 years ago, when it was housed adjacent to the TX-0 and the two were being used for speech synthesis experiments. From what I understand the operable machine on display at the CHM is a later C production version.

Dale H. Cook, GR / HP Collector, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
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