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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.