YADS - Yet Another DECtape Story

[Guy Harris]

> A lot of people didn't want to build (LINC) kits, so Clark approached a local
> firm that made plug-in boards, and got them to build the kits for the
> fumble-fingered.  The outfit sold a few, got good responses, cleaned up
> the design a bit (keeping the 12 bit format and 8 instructions) and,
> viola`!  The PDP-8.  I think the outfit is still in business.

Actually, DEC *did* get its start building plug-in boards, but they built
their first computer - the PDP-1 - about a year after their start.  The
PDP-5 was the original DEC 12-bit computer; the PDP-8 was the next generation
of same.  Later, they built a machine called the LINC-8, which consisted
either of a LINC and a PDP-8 in the same cabinet, or a processor which
pretended it was a LINC and a PDP-8 in the same cabinet (I don't remember
which).

	Guy Harris
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