WOW!!!! $15k DEC PDP-8 CLASSIC MINICOMPUTER SYSTEM DIGITAL PDP8

Wai-Sun Chia waisun.chia at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 23:56:56 CDT 2005


On 7/6/05, Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
<snip>
> IBM wanted to keep computers away from the masses, to keep them in the
> hands of the "priveleged", and their reward was to be able to continue to
> dominate the market to this day.  DEC wanted computers to be free and for
> people to use them.  Their reward was to be sucked up, torn apart and
> destroyed by a lesser company whose origins was in making clones of IBM's
> computers.

*Damn* you're making me all teary eyed.. *sob*


/wai-sun



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