Seeking disruptive tech

[Eric Smith]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:34 PM, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why did you add the whole "commercially available" pat, when I specifically
> meant the modules that were in the early PDPs?

Because the majority of the modules in the early PDPs *were* commercially
available. DEC's original business was selling logic modules.

I'm certainly willing to concede that some of the modules you cited may well
have been commercially available also; I just was previously unaware of that
fact. But certainly SMS modules were not offered as a product by IBM.

Was CDC selling those modules in 1959, when the PDP-1 was designed?