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Article #625076Re: DEC introduces PDP-6 [was Re: IBM introduces System/360]
From: John Levine
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:50
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:50
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In article <mdda7qm...@panix5.panix.com>, Rich Alderson <ne...@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote: >http://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/digital/A_Computer_that_grows_BusWeek_640314.pdf > >DEC's PDP-6 was announced 3 weeks before the IBM system/360, with first >customer ship in June, 1964, as opposed to IBM's FCS in October, 1965... Good point. Too bad that DEC sold 20 PDP-6's while IBM sold thousands of 360s. -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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