Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s

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From: ma...
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:00

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On 2018-07-30, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Rich Alderson <ne...@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:
>> ma...@mail.com writes:
>> 
>>> On 2018-07-28, m. thompson <michael.9...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 9:57:02 AM UTC-4, Harris Newman wrote:
>> 
>>>>> I remember seeing a list once, so here is the list but Microsoft isn't
>>>>> listed...
>>>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20050315112357/http://starfish.rcsri.org/rcs/DECsystem/FAQ/Serial_Number_Master.pdf
>> 
>>>> There is a much newer serial number list here:
>>>> https://sites.google.com/site/mthompsonorg/Home/pdp-10/pdp-10-serial-numbers
>> 
>>> When was the word microsoft registered.? 
>> 
>>> I remember that in `Neuromancer', there was a device mentioned that one stuck
>>> in one's brain.
>> 
>>> (Oh, same difference!)
>> 
>> Gibson in an interview I remember from the 80s said he misunderstood what the
>> company was doing, and thought that the name would become a generic like
>> "kleenex" or "xerox".
>> 
>
> Or ex-lax.
>

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