[Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 48, Issue 9

[Bill Pechter]

> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:03:34 -0500
> From: shoppa at trailing-edge.com (Tim Shoppa)
> Subject: Re: [Simh] slightly off-topic question
> To: SIMH at trailing-edge.com, davis at frizzen.com
> Message-ID: <20071110020335.0DFBFBA4645 at mini-me.trailing-edge.com>
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> Davis Johnson <davis at frizzen.com> wrote:
> > DEC used the name "DECsystem" for two unrelated products. One was the
> > PDP-10 based 36 bit timesharing system that ran TOPS-10 and the like.
> > The other is a headless DECstation. A DECsystem 5000 is a DECstation
> > 5000 without a keyboard or video controler, both are intended to run Ultrix.
>
> "DECsystem" was also used for PDP-11 configurations sold as prepackaged
> systems to businesses and schools (note also the EDUsystems), as well as
> PDP-8 systems (e.g. DECSystem 310, an 8/a built into a desk with a RX01
> for word processing).
>
> Tim.
>
>

Interestingly enough the 11/70 in the blue corp. cabinets was labeled a
DecDataSystem 570 or something like that.

Bill
Bill

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