PDP-12 at the RICM

[Sean Caron]

Seconded; I was just leafing through "A DEC view of hardware systems
design" again last week and I had noticed that footnote and was wondering
myself ... the PDP-3 must be the rarest of them all :O I wonder if there
are any surviving leftovers?

Best,

Sean


On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Paul Anderson <useddec at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Al
>
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 7/13/15 9:54 PM, Paul Anderson wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Rich,
> >>
> >> Which one was possibility built for NSA? I missed the [1] footnote. Do
> you
> >> know more about the story?
> >>
> >>
> > this is the source for the wikipedia entry on the PDP-3
> >
> > http://www.decconnection.org/announcements.htm
> >
> > **************** February 14, 2007 *******************************
> >
> > *Anyone seen a PDP-3 lately?*
> >
> > I'm trying to discover what became of the PDP-3. It was originally built
> > at the Scientific Engineering Institute (SEI) in Waltham, MA, and later
> > transferred to someone at MIT. Gordon Bell wrote in 1978 that it was
> > running at an unspecified location in Oregon, but yesterday he told me
> that
> > he doesn't remember where that was. I am working on a book on the history
> > of stealth and the Lockheed Blackbird. The PDP-3 was used at SEI to
> process
> > radar data for the A-12 Blackbird. Thanks very much, Paul Suhler (949)
> > 856-1450 or Paul.Suhler at quantum.com
> >
> >
> >
>