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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!not-for-mail 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) Organization: Taughannock Networks Message-ID: <vpst3p$gr8$1@gal.iecc.com> References: <pan$96411$d204da43$cc34bb91$1fe98651@linux.rocks> <rx2wP.2$DoQ8.1@fx13.iad> <vpr8sp$1hmf$1@gal.iecc.com> <JNjwP.10$7xi4.1@fx43.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:51:53 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="17256"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" In-Reply-To: <pan$96411$d204da43$cc34bb91$1fe98651@linux.rocks> <rx2wP.2$DoQ8.1@fx13.iad> <vpr8sp$1hmf$1@gal.iecc.com> <JNjwP.10$7xi4.1@fx43.iad> Cleverness: some X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: johnl@iecc.com (John Levine) Bytes: 1840 Lines: 18 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. -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly