This was getting long - so I decided to "top post". Sorry ;) Here's Peter Samson's comments after I sent him a copy of the proposal:
"Well how about that! (It was never built and the hardware was never designed.) So many ideas and proposals never saw the light of day. I utterly forgot about the SC-4, whatever it was supposed to be." Cheers, Lyle -- On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 07:13:26 +0000 Lars Brinkhoff <[email protected]> wrote: > Phil Budne wrote: > > From: Lyle Bickley via cctalk <[email protected]> > >> > >> I contacted Peter Samson regarding a "SC-4" and this was his response: > >> "There was an SC-40 (made after my time there) which was a fast > >> PDP-10-compatible system. I don’t know of any SC-4 though." > > > > The document that raised the question has his name and signature (or > > the name and signature of *A* Peter R Samson) on it? > > > > I suppose one could say that SC-4 might be a marketing term that an > > engineer might have forgotten, or chosen to have forgotten, but Peter > > Samson's title in the document is Director of Marketing! > > > > The URL again: > > http://people.csail.mit.edu/saltzer/Multics/MHP-Saltzer-060508/filedrawers/141.graphics-system/Scan%203.PDF > > > > I heard back from Fred Wright: > > "Although I wasn't at SC in 1972, I'm pretty sure I would have heard of > the SC-4 if it had ever existed. The document you linked was just a > proposal, and I imagine that that's as far as it ever got. AFAIK, SC > didn't create any full-fledged computers between the SC-15 (1970) and > the SC-30 (1983)." -- 73 NM6Y Bickley Consulting West https://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
