Article 1662 of alt.sys.pdp10: Path: nntp1.ba.best.com!news1.best.com!news2.best.com!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!130.54.14.37.MISMATCH!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!sea-feed.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!news.u.washington.edu!Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU!mrc From: Mark Crispin Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Re: Looking for CUSP tape files for v6.03 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:39:53 -0700 Organization: Networks & Distributed Computing Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <8hoH5.62649$bI6.2262607@news1.giganews.com> <8smntu$3f1$11@bob.news.rcn.net> <8t7ks7$3u1$1@nntp1.ba.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tomobiki-cho.cac.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: nntp1.u.washington.edu 972513599 32774 (None) 140.142.17.37 X-Complaints-To: help@cac.washington.edu NNTP-Posting-User: dbi To: Joe Smith In-Reply-To: <8t7ks7$3u1$1@nntp1.ba.best.com> Xref: nntp1.ba.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:1662 On 25 Oct 2000, Joe Smith wrote: > But what about the Minnow? The fabled PDP-10 on a desk (smaller and > cheaper than the KS)? Was it functional enough to run TOPS-10 or > TOPS-20 before the plug got pulled on that project? My understanding is that the Minnow never got further than running EDDT, if that far. It definitely never ran an operating system. I recall being told that the Minnow lived up to its name. When the first board was given its initial solder, it dived into the solder pool! If you like, I can try to dig up the exact quote; I think that it was Pete Hurley who said it during the 36-bit Trivia Bowl in 1986. Trivia question: what was the slowest machine ever to run TOPS-20? -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.