DEC DOS was: PDP1 3624

CR:

Late 70s was when I learned about it from DEC's for X3J3 rep.: Leslie. I learned that in the course of working on X3J9. So timing likely made it mid to early 70s.

JCL: trust me, you are better off not knowing. I started life as an IBM hacker.

The problem was something very instructive the Bell Labs guys like Dennis documented working with the Bell Legal Dept. Similarly Wang and Xerox were attempting go against IBM's direction into Office Automation (computers to us, word processors to others).

We take laser printers for granted these days. I can remember talking to either Dennis or Ken in the late 70s before getting our first Unix license and going out and seeing Mergenthaler photo typesetters. We could not spring for $18K.

Most sites lack electronic engineers who built hardware then wrote the software device drivers to drive them. Standardization then became a problem. I heard about scanners, etc. But it was 5 years before I ever saw a microdensitometer and a couple decades for cheap scanners.

Sell Apple 2s. Cheap floppy disk drives and inexpensive joy sticks along with interaction. "Choplifter." ;^)

Lower cost computing.

I have. From Santa Barbara to DC. It distinguishes the CIA from the NSA. From the NASA Centers at JSC, MSFC, KSC and GSFC from JPL, ARC, LaRC.

Well my local ones were at UCSB. ARPAnet host #3.

Kahn, Taylor, Cerf, Lick's follow ons, all read Bush's As We May Think article. Also Englebart and Cray read it while in the Pacific.

Don't worry about it, it was a peripheral thread. Just get the book by John Markoff "What the Dor Mouse Said" from the Jefferson Airplane-Grace Slick song White Rabbit. You will learn a bit what was happening with your 10s on the left coast. I forgot who mentioned that sections of this book are being read on one Bay Area (SF) public radio show.

That certainly was what McCarthy thought. Get and read Markoff's book. You will see the positive impact of your machines.

If you really want an amusing reference, you will locate for yourself a copy of the UK's Lighthill report. You will not find this report on the web. It's too embarbutting to AI. People from McCarthy on will shoot at it, but no one hosts it as a web page. Some one has to maintain critics. It makes a good search test case.

I got 2 copies from Brits using news groups. Donald Michie specifically cites the need for the UK to buy 10s.

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