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From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] The first PDP-7 running Unix
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 22:03:42 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfpr=52yiSABT9S0p8UJpTincz4T_ebE7pT=2zcHR7jggg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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In honor of the Unix 50 party tomorrow, I wrote an analysis of the
available data to conclude the first PDP-7 that Ken and Dennis used to
bring up Unix on was serial number 34. I've not seen this result elsewhere,
but if it's common place, please let me know.

https://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-pdp-7-where-unix-began.html

One surprise from the analysis: there was only one pdp-7 in the world that
could have run the original v0 unix. It's the only one that had the RB09
hard drive (though the asset list referenced in the article listed a RC09
on that system).

I hope you enjoy

Warner

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             reply	other threads:[~2019-07-10  4:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-10  4:03 Warner Losh [this message]
2019-07-10  5:14 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-07-10  5:34   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-07-10  6:05     ` Warner Losh
2019-07-11  9:00 ` Thomas Paulsen

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