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Oh, the days of 30-yr old PDP-8s running CNC milling machine s in the physics dept. machine shop....

• inetsee 5y ago
  I worked as a lab assistant in the Pychology department at the University of California at San Diego from 1974 to 1976. The lab I worked in had a PDP-8 minicomputer. While I was there they added a 32K word hard drive for $5000, and upgraded the core memory from 6K bytes to 12K bytes for another $5000. I sometimes think about what I could get nowadays with $10,000.
  • spfzero 5y ago
    And that’s 10,000 1976 dollars. Today that would be at least $25,000, or more.
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• pmlnr 5y ago
  a PDP-8 is not 30 years old... it was released in 1965. The last batch was in '74, according to wikipedia. That's ~50 years old. Remember, 2000 was 20 years ago.
  • bitwize 5y ago
    Grandparent post was reminiscing, ostensibly to a time about... er, 20 years ago.
    • pmlnr 5y ago
      oh. My bad.