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- From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
- Subject: Re: PDP-8 Collectors
- References: <Bx946L.KCM@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> <1992Nov5.195426.10466@news.uiowa.edu>
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- Organization: Generic American College Kids (G.A.C.K.)
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:30:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.013012.16601@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
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- In article <foo> jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones) writes:
- >There are also very likely to be many industrial users of PDP-8
- >based systems. Just last month, I was talking to a man from an
- >Alcoa plant, and he said that they were still using NC machines
- >that were real antiques. I'd lay even odds on an antique NC
- >machine being PDP-8 based!
-
- Oh, yes indeedy, there are many, many industrial PDP-8 setups out there. A
- guy I used to know--field service rep for a measuring-equipment company--said
- that his main job is maintaining 8/L and 8/I (and some 8/E or /F) setups
- installed back in the late '60s, early '70s. Apparently, it's mostly the
- specialized OEM hardware that needs fixing--the 8's just keep on rolling.
- Many plants that use his company's stuff also use 8-based NC rigs. Kind of
- awe-inspiring, when you think about it.
-
- > Doug Jones
- > jones@cs.uiowa.edu
-
- Seth "the Lesser"
-
- Seth L. Blumberg \ Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap.
- slb22@columbia.edu (play) \ Blumberg's Corollary: And the rest ain't so
- sethb@ctr.columbia.edu (work) \ hot, either.
- > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
-