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The title attribution poses another riddle: "PDP-1/B and miniature model railroad at University of Massachusetts". The PDP-1B was the production prototype of t
by masswerk 6y ago
The title attribution poses another riddle: "PDP-1/B and miniature model railroad at University of Massachusetts".
The PDP-1B was the production prototype of the PDP-1 and there were only 2, we know of. The first one (white) was intended for LLNL, but the order got delayed and it went to BBN instead, the second one (blue) became the actual LLNL machine.
Update: Curiously, the this page [1] also mentions a "PDP-lB" [sic!]:
[1] https://www.cics.umass.edu/about/history-school-computer-science https://www.cics.umass.edu/about/history-school-computer-sci...
Anyway, this seems to confirm the Amherst link already suggested by Steve Russell.
- peapicker 6y agoGood article... it points out that J.A.N. Lee was appointed Program Head of the new CS program at UMassAmherst in September of 1964. And that is the same person whom the 2nd photo was from in the thread’s main article.