28 Dec
2017
28 Dec
'17
8:14 a.m.
On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 16:51:54 -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
The concept of purchasing smaller system, was indeed true. This was the
idea behind the >>mini-computer<< or *minimal computer* that Gordon Bell
who lad left DEC temporarily to be a CMU Prof for a time began to explore.
This ties in very much with what I recall from the late 1960s. My
very first computer was a PDP-8/I, and we certainly called it a
computer, not a data processor.
He took the idea and commercialized and the PDP-8 line
was the first
in that line.
Not the PDP-5? I thought there was little difference. If there was,
it would be interesting to know.
Greg
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