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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: the end of 18 bits, The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:51:53 -0000 (UTC)
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According to Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net>:
>>We liked ours at Yale, too.  I know CMU had at least one.
>
>And the University of Washington (e.g. Gates) had one as well.

Says here they had several:

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Early-Days-as-a-Computer-Programmer

Also see this 1977 ARPAnet map with the PDP-10's highlighted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-10#/media/File:Arpanet_logical_map,_march_1977_PDP-10.png

DEC reportedly sold about 1500 PDP-10's which was pretty good for a non-IBM mainframe class computer.

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