On June 16, 2018 10:10:43 AM EDT, Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> wrote:

On Sat, 16 Jun 2018, Noel Chiappa wrote:

 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


Wasn't a one-chip PDP11 used by Tengen in a few arcade games, like 
Paperboy?

-uso.