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Amazing Photo With Minicomputer Posters > Late 70s Public Relations, Pittsburgh, PA

This image is a treasure trove.

 

The poster on wall on left is for a PDP-11/23, which was one of "a series of 16-bit minicomputers sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1970 into the 1990s". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11. Specifically, it is the PDP-11/23, "a second generation of LSI (F-11). Early units supported only 248 kB of memory."

 

The four fanned pennants behind the seated guy's head seems to be a motivational giveaway for a Digital Equipment Corporation conference held on August 15, 1979. I can't find any info on this.

 

The item on the far right is a "coming soon" poster for "A New Standard of Excellence in 16-Bit Minicomputer Architecture"-- the PDP 11/44. From Wikipedia:

 

"PDP-11/44 — Replacement for the 11/45 and 11/70 that supported optional cache memory and floating-point processor, and included a sophisticated serial console interface and support for 4 MB of physical memory. The design team was managed by John Sofio. This was the last PDP-11 processor to be constructed using discrete logic gates; later models were all microprogrammed."

 

Lastly, the book underneath the plans they're reviewing is "The Silva Mind Control Method"

www.amazon.com/Silva-Mind-Control-Method/dp/0671739891/

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Uploaded on August 13, 2011