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Subject:Hi! What's a PDP-11? Anyone know? From:Alexander Von_obert <avobert -at- TWH -dot- MSN -dot- SUB -dot- ORG> Date:Sat, 20 Jan 1996 14:08:00 +0100
Hello Cecil,
* Antwort auf eine Nachricht von crw an All am 16.01.96
cc> From: crw -at- loop -dot- com (crw)
cc> If you have a clue as to what a PDP-11 is, please let me know.
PDP-11 was a quite popular line of computers by Digital in the seventies. They
were superseded by the Vax series.
If you have some programs that run on these computers ONLY, you could think
about taking them. But without some kind of specialist you will have a hard
time to do anything with them.
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Up to here, I should have posted it as private mail. But this question showed
me how fast qualifications are to change these days. The PDP-11s were 16-bit
machines when I thought of building my first microprocessor system. They had
removable 14-inch "Winchester" drives holding 5 MB...
Greetings from Germany,
Alexander
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