At 08:24 AM 16/10/2002 -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote:
>On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Huw Davies wrote:
>
> > Geez. I can hardly remember what a DECsystem-10 looks like and I've got
> > photos! Half of Australia's red wine production over the last 10 years has
> > passed through my house (and me :-) so the long term memory has been
> > replaced with tannins....
>
>Your memory may go but all the anti-oxidants in the wine will keep your
>heart pumping blood to your empty brain, pulsating with faded glimpses of
>past glory ;)
That's probably OK then.
> > All I can remember is a largish (blue?) slightly circular console (say 4 to
> > 6 feet long) with switches and lights (no CRTs) and possibly a separate
> > room filled with valves. This would make some sense for a system installed
> > in the early to mid-60s.
>
>My first guess: a PDP-1.
>
>http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-dec-pdp-1.jpg
No, definitely not a PDP-1. The console is too small.
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