[rescue] SS10/20 death

[Dave McGuire]

On February 5, Harri Haataja 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.

  PDP8s pull VERY little power compared to other computers of their
era, and even compared to mid-sized systems of THIS era.

    - Dave

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Dave McGuire
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