On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 07:07:35AM -0500, william degnan wrote: > > I have an original 1969 PDP 11 brochure. In it there are two PDP 11 model > configurations to choose from; the 10 and the 20. For me at least this > throws into question the whole "...the 10 first came out with the 5 > in1972..." story everyone repeats over and over, unless one must have a > "10" printed on the console in order to accept a computer model's > existence. DEC must not have sold many original 10 models, and/or everyone > who has a 10 does not realize that's what they have. But, facts are facts > and the brochure and price guide I have is what it is. Hoping some here > will check for themselves and consider it misleading at least to simply > call the original PDP-11 a "pdp 11/20 without the nameplate". In short, > the original bare-bones pdp11 was the pdp-11 10, the fully-equipped version > was the pdp-11 20.
I will definitely correct myself in the future. It would be interresting to see if anyone has a "numberless" machine with the "M11-10" designation printed on the back, to see if any was actually delivered (and I wouldn't be surprised if there was). /P
