PDP-11/20 vd one that just says pdp 11 what are the date differences?? OEM?
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Mon Feb 22 06:17:35 CST 2016
In a message dated 2/22/2016 5:14:40 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
pontus at Update.UU.SE writes:
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 07:07:35AM -0500, william degnan wrote:
>
> I have an original 1969 PDP 11 brochure. In it there are two PDP 11
model
> configurations to choose from; the 10 and the 20. For me at least this
> throws into question the whole "...the 10 first came out with the 5
> in1972..." story everyone repeats over and over, unless one must have a
> "10" printed on the console in order to accept a computer model's
> existence. DEC must not have sold many original 10 models, and/or
everyone
> who has a 10 does not realize that's what they have. But, facts are
facts
> and the brochure and price guide I have is what it is. Hoping some here
> will check for themselves and consider it misleading at least to simply
> call the original PDP-11 a "pdp 11/20 without the nameplate". In short,
> the original bare-bones pdp11 was the pdp-11 10, the fully-equipped
version
> was the pdp-11 20.
I will definitely correct myself in the future. It would be interresting
to see if anyone has a "numberless" machine with the "M11-10"
designation printed on the back, to see if any was actually delivered
(and I wouldn't be surprised if there was
/P
Well I owned one in 1980 that just said only PDP 11.... but so
long ago do not remember the label
when I got a chance to swap some stuff for the 11/20 for the
museum I jumped at it.
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