Path: nntp1.ba.best.com!news1.best.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-backup-east.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!199.232.56.18!news.ultranet.com!d2 From: jmfbahxx@ma.ultranet.com Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Re: PA1050 Error Messages on DEC20 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 98 13:42:17 GMT Organization: UltraNet Communications, Inc. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <6a4saj$40p$2@decius.ultra.net> References: <68iin3$i2e@snews2.zippo.com> <6a17rm$q7c$1@shell3.ba.best.com> <6a25og$ca1$1@decius.ultra.net> <6a4c0s$1vt$1@shell3.ba.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d2.dial-14.mbo.ma.ultra.net X-Complaints-To: abuse@ultra.net X-Ultra-Time: 21 Jan 1998 13:13:55 GMT X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Xref: nntp1.ba.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:3642 In article <6a4c0s$1vt$1@shell3.ba.best.com>, inwap@best.com (Smith and O'Halloran) wrote: >In article <6a25og$ca1$1@decius.ultra.net>, wrote: >>> PDP-10 Features PDP-6 1050 1070 2020 KC TOAD-1 >>>==================== ===== ==== ==== ==== ==== ====== >>>Year announced 1964 1967 1972 1978 cancel 1995 >> >>Are you sure that it was 1972 that the 1070 was announced? I went >>to my 25 year dinner last fall and one of the goodies handed out was >>the internal newletter. It had a blurb about the 1070 announcement >>and that was in 1971. > >You're probably right. I was going by what Digital put on their timeline. >(The timeline appears to have been written by a marketroid - it has some >factual errors in it.) For 1971 it talks about the KA 10/40 and 10/50 but >the picture is obviously a KI. Well, I should probably say that what I heard in DEC as an employee may not be what the field saw. There seemed to be strange discrepancies that I never really understood what with disclosures, announcements, etc. I just took on the attitude that what I knew was proprietary since I never had any idea which subjects were OK to talk about. Some days an item was OK, then it would be not-OK, then it would be OK. I just left all that up to the guys to figure out and followed their lead. /BAH