[rescue] SS10/20 death

Harri Haataja harri.haataja at cs.Helsinki.FI
Tue Feb 5 11:31:32 CST 2002


On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:45:07AM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On February 5, Loomis, Rip wrote:
> > [0]  Note that a PDP-8 *is* worth keeping as a work of art
> >      if for no other reason...while an SM-100 really is
> >      just a piece of crap.
> 
>   Yes.  The fact that, with a PDP8, you can put six users on terminals
> doing real work on a machine with 24KW (twenty-four *kilowords*...not
> megs) of RAM is pretty impressive.

I parsed that as kilowatts first.



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