Age, was Re: IBM mainframe goes for 99 cents

[O. Sharp]

Quoth Brad Parker:

> Anyone have any idea when the first 8/I's got shipped?

Not specifically, but I suspect a good guess would be 1968. If I remember 
right - my bookshelves are at home, but I'm at work - the 1967 Small 
Computer Handbook dealt primarily with the -8, -8/S and LINC/8, and the 
1968 edition dealt with the 8/I. I suspect the machine and the handbook 
weren't _too_ far apart.  :)

                     -O.-