Early hardware acquisitions

[larsbrinkhoff]

From https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/776233.pdf

Date online	Equipment
1966 June	PDP-6, 64K core, 8 Dectape drives, 8 Teletypes
Oct.	Vidicon camera, Rancho Arm
1967 Nov.	Librascope Disk
1968 Jan.	6 III Displays
Aug.	Ampex Core (64K)
Sept.	PDP-10(KA-10 processor)
1969 Feb.	IBM 2314 Disk
1970 Jun.	3 IMLAC displays
1971 Mar.	Data Disc Displays (58 eventually)
May	Scheinman (Stanford) Arm
July?	BBN IMP
1972 Jan.	IBM 3330 replaces 2314
April	Ampex core (128K)
May	Video Switch
1973 Jan.	Xerox Graphics Printer

FYI @bgbaumgart

[bgbaumgart]

Lars Brinkhoff Cc: Les and the PDP10 WAITS people - Thank you for actually READING this document for Hardware dates. I even have a hardcopy paper original here on a shelf, as well as visiting with its author (Lester Earnest) IRL this past week. https://www.saildart.org/AIM/228/pdf <https://www.saildart.org/AIM/228/pdf> There are paper "console log books" at Lesters house three of which. I scanned into the Internet Archive a decade ago Links to PDF and Internet Archive in mid page of this https://www.saildart.org/allow/pdf/index.html <https://www.saildart.org/allow/pdf/index.html> example LOG book at https://archive.org/details/apr67hardwarelog00brucrich/mode/2up <https://archive.org/details/apr67hardwarelog00brucrich/mode/2up> - Bruce Baumgart Les - Lets get those books and papers out of the closet and through my scanners - what with the "plague season holiday” we should have plenty of time to get this done this year. AND we finally have a couple of people who actually want to read this really old stuff. - Bruce

On Mar 13, 2020, at 3:54 AM, Lars Brinkhoff ***@***.***> wrote: https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/776233.pdf <https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/776233.pdf>

Date online Equipment 1966 June PDP-6, 64K core, 8 Dectape drives, 8 Teletypes Oct. Vidicon camera, Rancho Arm 1967 Nov. Librascope Disk 1968 Jan. 6 III Displays Aug. Ampex Core (64K) Sept. PDP-10(KA-10 processor) 1969 Feb. IBM 2314 Disk 1970 Jun. 3 IMLAC displays 1971 Mar. Data Disc Displays (58 eventually) May Scheinman (Stanford) Arm July? BBN IMP 1972 Jan. IBM 3330 replaces 2314 April Ampex core(128K) May Video Switch 1973 Jan. Xerox Graphics Printer

[larsbrinkhoff]

Adding to the above, I also see that the KL10 went into production in summer 1976. I.e. the FTKL monitor switch was toggled from 0 to -1 in August.

Furthermore, the old 3330 disks were ditched in favor of RH20. See FTRH appearing in October 1983.

[larsbrinkhoff]

Copied to https://github.com/PDP-10/waits/wiki/SAIL-hardware-time-line, and expanded.