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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
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    > From: Clem Cole

    > The 8 pretty much had a base price in the $30k range in the mid to late
    > 60s. 

His statement was made in 1977 (ironically, the same year as the Apple
II).

(Not really that relevant, since he was apparently talking about 'smart
homes'; still, the history of DEC and personal computers is not a happy one;
perhaps why that quotation was taken up.)

    > Later models used TTL and got down to a single 3U 'drawer'.

There was eventually a single-chip micro version, done in the mid-70's; it
was used in a number of DEC word-processing products.

	Noel