How many PDP-12's are there now?

From: J.C.Wren <jcwren_at_jcwren.com>
Date: Wed Jan 15 12:44:08 2003

I live in GA, very near Roswell. What's the info on the '12?

        --John

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> Subject: How many PDP-12's are there now?
>
>
>
> So...
>
> all this discussion about PDP-12's has got me curious.
>
> How many of them are there in existence?
>
> It would certainly be interesting to get a list of machines and at
> least city locations -- I'll start the list:
>
> Ottawa/ON/Canada (mine)
> Roswell/GA/USA
>
> If anyone wants to send me info, I'll volunteer to collect and put it
> up on my website (I won't put email addresses or other incriminating
> evidence unless you want me to :-)).
>
> The other interesting thing that this discussion begs is the topic of
> (borrowed term) "biomagnification". It's from the
> environmental field,
> and basically relates to how bigger animals get more than their "fair"
> share of poisons because they eat smaller animals which have already
> concentrated the poisons in their systems. I've borrowed the
> term because
> lately what I've been thinking about is the accumulated collections of
> people who are no longer interested in collecting -- in this case,
> instead of just getting one or two machines at a time, you tend to
> get "clusters" of machines -- hence "biomagnification" :-)
>
> So... any collectors out there getting rid of PDP stuff? :-)
>
> Cheers,
> -RK
>
> --
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> Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
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