Litton Industries Monrobot XI computers available

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sat Mar 1 09:56:00 2003

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Rick Bensene wrote:

> The big part of the difference in speed between the PDP-8 and the
> Monrobot XI is that the PDP-8 used random-access magnetic core memory as
> the main memory and a parallel architecture, and the Monrobot machines
> used magnetic drum and a bit-serial architecture.
<...>

Great information! Thanks, Rick.

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