Here is a scan of another EDU marketing document: 1,000,000 Students
http://storage.datormuseum.se/u/96935524/Datormusuem/EDU/DEC-1.000.000-STUDENTS.pdf Lyle Bickley helped me with OCR and de-skew. Thanks! /Mattis Den ons 23 jan. 2019 kl 20:16 skrev Mattis Lind <mattisl...@gmail.com>: > Here is the scan of EDU #7 > > > http://storage.datormuseum.se/u/96935524/Datormusuem/EDU/Digital-EDU-7-newsletter.pdf > > It is scanned in 600dpi color so it is big. Please anyone that has good > tools might squeeze it a bit without loosing resolution and color. > > Reading it quickly it is an issue that edited by David Ahl and Sally Bower > (who appear on page 5). On the centrefold there are some typical (I think) > David Ahl pictures that I recognize from 101 Computer Games. (I had a bad > copy which my father brought home from work when I was a kid. Remember > typing in Game of life on the home built terminal connected to a 6800 > system running some BASIC) > > I notice on the last page there som small text in very fine print "Printed > in U.S.A. 0103 00173 2669/F 14 25" comparing this with the other EDU > material which seems to be printed by the same company I deduce that 00173 > most likely indicate the year 1973. > > It make sense since all these EDU brochures was sent with a cover letter > dated 1973-11-27 to a school, in Stockholm, Sweden, Åvaskolan in Täby. > > Hope you enjoy it! > > It will take some time to get the rest scanned. I need to scan them in the > flatbed scanner since I don't want to destroy them in the process. > > /Mattis > > Den ons 23 jan. 2019 kl 15:08 skrev Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net>: > >> >> >> > On Jan 23, 2019, at 1:54 AM, Mattis Lind <mattisl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > onsdag 23 januari 2019 skrev Brett Bump <bb...@rsts.org>: >> > >> > >> > On Tue, 22 Jan 2019, Paul Koning wrote: >> > >> > On Jan 22, 2019, at 6:00 PM, Richard <legal...@xmission.com> wrote: >> > >> > In article < >> cabr82sjodd8hhsgzjy8o_l5uqc3j1orjb7ht90vizykjdq0...@mail.gmail.com>, >> > Mattis Lind <mattisl...@gmail.com> writes: >> > >> > I have some DEC EDU material which I can scan if there are interest >> (and if >> > it isn't scanned already by someone else): >> > >> > https://i.imgur.com/tqmcieK.jpg >> > >> > I'd like to see this one about MINI-RSTS! >> > >> > I remember seeing that before, quite possibly the same data sheet. I >> never heard of it while at DEC (in RSTS development). Perhaps it was a >> short lived early (V4 vintage) RSTS marketing exercise. >> > >> > >> > paul >> > >> > >> > Yes. I forgot that I already scanned that one. Here is the mini RSTS >> flyer in full pdf. >> > >> > http://storage.datormuseum.se/u/96935524/Datormusuem/mini-rsts.pdf >> > >> > Since the other documents are printed around 1972/1973 I guess that >> this one is the same vintage. >> > >> > /Mattis >> > >> > >> > Paul and I had this discussion before about 12 years ago on Wikipedia: >> > >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RSTS-11&action=history >> > >> > I believe RSTS-11 V4A-12 was probably given the name Mini-Rsts-11 >> > by the marketing department (somewhat the same as MicroRSTS later). >> > MicroRSTS was a pregenned distribution with exactly the same code >> > that came on the distribution tapes, starting with RSTS/E V8.0-06. >> > There are many references to MicroRSTS, but I have only seen 2 for >> > Mini-Rsts (below is a link for our colleges RSTS-11 receipt). >> > >> > http://www.rsts.org/images/minirsts.jpg >> > >> > I know that this original distribution was V4A-12 so the name was >> > probably dropped by the time RSTS/E V5A-21 was released eight (8) >> > months later. >> > >> > Brett >> >> Interesting that there is no date on that document. The term "RSTS-11" >> makes it clear we're talking about RSTS V4 or earlier. For that matter, so >> does the hardware configuration: a boatload of DL11s for the user terminals >> rather than a DH11 or DZ11 mux, because V4 only supported single line >> interfaces. >> >> It's not clear if this is V4 or an older version. 24kW memory is a >> minimal V4 configuration, pretty marginal actually but possibly ok for 8 >> users max. (In college I used V4A on a 28kW machine, 16 terminal lines, 16 >> users max though it tended to crash at around 12.) The feature list >> doesn't mention some V4 (optional) features like "record I/O" so it's >> possible this was actually V3. >> >> I also found the term "PDP-11/21" interesting. Has that been used >> anywhere else? It's pretty clearly an 11/20 configuration. >> >> paul >> >> >>
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