My classiccmp non-retirement :-)

[William Donzelli]

> True.  But other computer makers of even lower stature have shown up
> on the CC list, and in bitsavers.  Apart from the big ones, it seems
> to be just a random process that determines which machines appear and
> which ones do not.  For example, I can't think of any other reason why
> Varian would show up in Al's archive and Philips would not...

I doubt there were ever more than 100 Phillips machines in the US at any
given time. Perhaps in Europe they were more popular, but here they were
effectively not even a tiny speck in the minicomputer industry.

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org