Clarence Verge wrote:
>>I don't know if it is historically accurate, but according to my eyes,
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had a PDP-8 in their dorm room at Harvard
in 1974.
At that time, even tho it was almost 10 years old, we were still using a
PDP-8 as a teaching computer in an undergrad lab.
The point ? It would have been worth about the cost of a new Buick.
How the heck do students get to have a MINICOMPUTER in their bedroom ?<<
I was in college in 1972, and the guy down the hall in my dorm had a Wang
computer in his room. The college itself was on a mainframe-and-terminals
configuration with IBM equipment, so it wasn't related to the what the
college was doing.
I was told the guy was technically a sales representative for Wang, and
maybe he took it out and demonstrated it-- I don't know. But having a
computer in your room wasn't impossible in that timeframe.
