Re: PDP's, InterData, Burroughs B1700

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From: dell... Dave Elliott
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1990 03:12

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Got my introduction to personal computing on a DEC PDP-12, which was a
two-headed laboratory computer. One head was a normal PDP-8, the other was
a LINC computer, which had a vector CRT output, analog/digital I/O, and
lots of other nice interfaces as well as its own CPU. We did our listings 
and graphical output (image of the curves on the CRT) on a Versatec printer
 with fantastic resolution.     Nice thing about
the DEC machines was that all one needed, in 1975, was a system tape and
a rather small manual (TECO, Fortran, Assembly,...) -- less than  400 
pages. The only real trouble was that the teletype I/O was deafening in
a tiny room....

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From: dell...@cec1.wustl.edu (Dave Elliott)
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Subject: Re: PDP's, InterData, Burroughs B1700
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