Re: DEC introduces PDP-6 [was Re: IBM introduces System/360]

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From: Rich Alderson
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 20:53

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John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> writes:

> 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.

You're right, it is.  They should have stuck with the original style
System Modules(TM) as in the earlier systems, or gone over to the
FlipChip(TM) form factor with the PDP-6 instead of the PDP-7.  The
PDP-6's oversized System Modules with soldered connectors on *TWO*
edges were terribly fragile and therefore terribly flaky. :-( :-( :-(

-- 
Rich Alderson					  ne...@alderson.users.panix.com
      Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
	  omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
									--Galen

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