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To: John Koligman who wrote (32674)	9/10/1998 6:59:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) of 97611

John - Sure do - along with fond memories of shuffling them around to provide the right data as a job stream progressed. Sadly enough, I have been around long enough to remember when disks replaced drums as the most common online storage... PDP made lots of innovative steps - 8's were among the first affordable machines, I remember when my engineering department got one. We could actually do work on our own computer, whenever we wanted!! 9's were powerful enough to do real process control, and those extra 6 bits (12 to 18) really made a lot of jobs easier... PDP10 was of course the 'big data' machine as far as many schools and small businesses were concerned, since their alternative was time-sharing on someone else's mainframe. And after IBM made byte addressing the standard, the 16 bit pdp-11 set the pace for a wide range of compatible computer families. DEC created the mentality that made personal computers possible, but never cashed in on the results.

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