KA10 PDP10 front panel diagram added to web site 3772
Huh?
Bzzzt. Wrong. Thank you for playing.
Systems Concepts were extremely successful at building a PDP-10 clone, thank you very much. (As the systems manager of the facility to receive the very first delivery, I ought to know.) They were so successful that CompuServe, which used PDP-10s as network routers, licensed the design and built their own because they needed more than SC could turn out in the timeframe required, paying 40% of list price for each one they built.
They were successful enough that when Cisco Systems tried to buy one of their products in order to retire a KL-10, they could refuse the PO. Their concern was that the founder of Cisco was off at a new venture building a PDP-10 clone, and they did not want to give him access to their hardware, even though he was no longer buttociated with Cisco in any way. (I was the senior systems admin who ordered the SC-25 that got turned down, and had the conservation with Mike Leavitt myself.)
I may not be Lynn Wheeler, but I've had my share of history in the context of PDP-10s.
Quite true. The problem is that public insbreastutions like the Smithsonian are not set up very well to record technology. The SI will direct...
I went to the Computer Museum in Boston three or four times. The first shortly after it opened. Again some years later after it was well established...
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