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[mmoy]

Does no one remember the Professional 325 and 350?


Miserable failures. TOo little too late.

I remember buying a Rainbow 100 for $5K. It did pay for itself
in business profits but why did DEC have to do everything in a
non-standard way?

I helped folks out with DECMates too (PDP-8 PC).

[Jules2]

Posted by: CombJelly
In reply to: mmoy who wrote msg# 37945 Date:6/14/2004 5:10:39 PM
Post #of 37982


"PDP-11s would have made nice early PCs."

Does no one remember the Professional 325 and 350?

http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/pdp-11/models.html

I dont see it listed, however I'm allmost certain I had a "Professional System 425". Had a SS low density 5 1/4 floppy with the split drive doors, 5mb HD. Plenty of time for coffee while booting up.

Regards

Jules

[pgerassi]

Dear Combjelly:

Remember the H-11? That was a LSI-11 (PDP-11/05) on a QBUS card in a 4 slot QBUS chassis, IIRC. You got a purchased version of RSX-11 with it. The above was very popular during the late 70's early 80's. Used ones sold for 3 to 5 times what they were purchased for since the backplane could take MicroVax-III CPU cards.

Pete