Ron Ginger wrote: > Ok, I cant let this one go without a comment. I joined DEC as a sales > engineer in the Ann Arbor Michigan office in Feb 1969. That was still > PDP8 days, the 11 didnt come until 1970. We had a series of application > systems we sold on PDP8's, and as I recall one of them was for > generating NC code on paper tape. Ive got one box of DEC stuff packed > away, and I think I still have something here about the NC system. > > Under my keyboard as I write this is a PDP15 logo panel, and somewhere > around here there is still a trophy for the biggest PDP12 sale. > > I lasted until the end, bought by Compaq, then by HP, but I took the HP > early retirement offer. I was in every state in the US, most of Europe, > Japan, Australia doing sales support or training. It was a hell of a > ride while it lasted. > Oh boy! I remember the PDP-12 fondly! I also worked a bunch on the LINC, the computer with the OTHER instruction set that was in the LINC-8 and PDP-12. I also used a PDP-5 (discrete transistor predecessor to the PDP-8, same instruction set).
It is nice to know that ALL of these machines are in the Computer History Museum in Palo Alto. If you ever get out there, you REALLY have to take a trip down "memory lane"! Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
