On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 08:59:50PM +0200, Mattis Lind wrote:
> I found a really nice PDP-8/e sales brochure while browsing through our
> heaps of documentation.
>
> Plenty of nice close up photos and as last picture a system with everything.
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/96935524/Datormusuem/pdp8e-sales.pdf
"System with everything". Neat. I remember RSTS development had an 11/70
system that was intended to have "two of everything". Everything then supported
by RSTS/E, that is. So of course its node name was "ARK". At some point the
number of supported peripherals got to the point where they couldn't live on a
single machine any longer, either that or we needed more CPU for the team size,
and a second machine ("GROK", an 11/44) was added to hold "the rest of the
supported devices".
Actually, ARK had some unsupported stuff on it, for example an RP07. That
worked fine on an 11/70 (though not on any machine -- you needed the high speed
Massbus found only there) but DEC never officially supported it.
paul
