"DEC vs IBM vs ...": vintage availability, was WOW!!!! $15k DEC PDP-8 CLASSIC MINICOMPUTER SYSTEM DIGITAL PDP8

[Scott Stevens]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:52:25 -0700 (PDT)
Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, William Maddox wrote:

> 
> [Lest anyone think I hate IBM -- I don't. I really love the 360
> architecture, and would have loved writing assembly for it. It's
> just that their business practices weren't conducive to
> non-business cultural uses of their systems, until the peecee.]
> 


They were open enough, at least, that people like my dad were able to
'check out' and bring home an IBM 5100 on the weekend for us to fool
with.  I remember loading and playing Star Trek on the 5100 at home.