RED ALERT!! BIG LOAD OF FREEBIES!!

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Fri Dec 5 00:16:44 1997

At 04:59 PM 12/3/97 -0500, William Donzelli wrote:
>> > There is also a DEC-system 2020.
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> Holy &*^%&*%! (Spits out soda) That's a DEC-10!
>
>Wipe that up!
>
>Well, it is a 36 bitter, thus deserving a spot in any collection, but I am
>sure some of the PDP-10 old timers (hmmmm, who could they be?) will be
>quick to tell you that the 2020s are the little runts of the family. They
>were slow and not really elegant.

I think of myself as a young DECsystem-10 old timer :-)

Whilst it's true to say that the horrible orange 2020s are runts, not real
-10s (they're the wrong colour and size to start with), they are the only
practical DEC 36 bit system for the home user.... It's no bigger than a
VAX-11/780 and there are quite a few people with systems that size at home.
The biggest regret I have is that I was offered one about 5 years ago and
didn't have the space or money at the time to get it - it was later
scrapped....


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