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From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_crl.com>
Date: Tue Apr 29 23:53:58 1997

On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Alexios Chouchoulas wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Sam Ismail wrote:
>
> > Yes, I realized that. The PDP-8 and PDP-11 are definitely worthy of
> > mention, but did they really make the impact and have significance equal
> > to the Altair and the others? I'm sure you could argue to that effect.
> > Care to?
>
> How about the advent of Unix and C? Both made for the PDP-11. And the
> PDP-8 was considered the first potentially personal computer (it could fit
> in your house, albeit it cost in the vicinity of $10k when it first came
> out).
>
> Ok, so the PDPs didn't influence hardware that much and they weren't home
> computers. But software is equally important, and I don't even care to
> estimate the percentage of running systems written in C.

Unix and C are better left as show topics at Software Development Expo.

The PDP systems are great machines but I'd rather stick with the
micro-computer craze as the focus for the first show. This is not to say
that the classic mini's will not be highlighted. I plan on definitely
having them as part of the exhibit...maybe even a mainframe if I can get
a donor. Perhaps at the 2nd show we will focus on the 50s-60s era mini's
and mainframes.

Sam
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