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Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s

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From: Questor
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 18:41
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On 20 Jul 2018 16:42:12 -0400, Rich Alderson <ne...@alderson.users.panix.com>
wrote:
>mart...@sdf.lonestar.org (Stephen M. Jones) writes:
>> does anyone know details on the PDP-10s
>> that Microsoft used? KS10s, KL10s.  I 
>> am looking for serial numbers and config
>> or options they had.  also, has anyone 
>> come across the pdp10 based dev tools
>> that were used at microsoft?
>
>Well, we know that their first was a KS-10 delivered in late December 1978 or
>early January 1979...

That wasn't an ADP Onsite system, was it?  (grin)

I thought part of Microsoft's very early shady past was that Bill and Paul used
Harvard's PDP-10 to develop their microcomputer BASIC product, contravening
University guidelines regarding commercial use of their systems by students.
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