Seconded; I was just leafing through "A DEC view of hardware systems design" again last week and I had noticed that footnote and was wondering myself ... the PDP-3 must be the rarest of them all :O I wonder if there are any surviving leftovers?
Best, Sean On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Paul Anderson <used...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Al > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Al Kossow <a...@bitsavers.org> wrote: > > > > > > > On 7/13/15 9:54 PM, Paul Anderson wrote: > > > >> Hi Rich, > >> > >> Which one was possibility built for NSA? I missed the [1] footnote. Do > you > >> know more about the story? > >> > >> > > this is the source for the wikipedia entry on the PDP-3 > > > > http://www.decconnection.org/announcements.htm > > > > **************** February 14, 2007 ******************************* > > > > *Anyone seen a PDP-3 lately?* > > > > I'm trying to discover what became of the PDP-3. It was originally built > > at the Scientific Engineering Institute (SEI) in Waltham, MA, and later > > transferred to someone at MIT. Gordon Bell wrote in 1978 that it was > > running at an unspecified location in Oregon, but yesterday he told me > that > > he doesn't remember where that was. I am working on a book on the history > > of stealth and the Lockheed Blackbird. The PDP-3 was used at SEI to > process > > radar data for the A-12 Blackbird. Thanks very much, Paul Suhler (949) > > 856-1450 or paul.suh...@quantum.com > > > > > > >
