HP 3000 No More (legacy)

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Sat Nov 17 17:21:44 2001

On Nov 17, 16:51, Dave McGuire wrote:

> Well, as long as "dead" can be defined as "salespeople don't want to
> sell you a new one". For me, it can't. I can pick up the phone and
> buy PDP8 equipment from a commercial vendor. How long ago was THAT
> architecture discontinued?

Real Soon Now, according to people who still have them on support. Or
about 1995, (yes, that's two '9's there) according to the copyright on the
PCB etch of the memory board in the PDP-8/E I recently acquired :-)

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York
Received on Sat Nov 17 2001 - 17:21:44 GMT

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