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

Jules Richardson julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Jul 12 05:59:58 CDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 23:15 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
> > Early machines from the 'workstation wars', Apollo and Tektronix come to
> > mind, may be of interest in the future. There doesn't appear to be much
> 
> Along, I suspect, with the even less-knwon workstations from Xerox 
> (D-machines), 3 rivers/PERQ systems, Torch (XXX, quad-X), etc. 

Plus Whitechapel of course, and the aforementioned 3B2, and NeXT. I
suppose the Acorn R140/R260 count too. 

Everyone seems to remember Sun and SGI (although I do think SGI machines
have a bit of style to them!) but I bet there are a *lot* of forgotten
machines in the workstation class from the 1980's / early 90's. 

Actually, are we only counting machines that ran Unix-a-like systems, or
anything in the workstation class? (i.e. does PERQ qualify? :-)

cheers

Jules



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