From: "Duncan16v"
Oops. I stand corrected. PDP-11/74 then PDP-11/80
http://irse.org.au/index.php/en/component/docman/doc_download/569-metrol-con...
I keep an half inch tape from a K1630, an East German PDP-11 clone. In the first week studying back in 1987 they gave access to a K1630, three students at the time. They shared the CPU and 256kByte of RAM. When one started compiling the editing became slow, when two compiled the third student could go out for a coffee. When you were patient enough to endure it they gave you another challenge, a GD-80 vector graphics system from Hungary, looking like a radar screen and programmable with Logo and Turtle Graphics. After that you were qualified to use faster equipment. Amongst others we had two VAX-11/780 then, using Schneider PCs with a VT-320 emulation. The K1630 retired in (Northern) spring 1990. The paper strips were used for the carnival. That was its last job I know of. We just had a new building finished when the wall came down. The K1630 was already planned to stay behind and not to move into the new house - and the donations from the West (introducing SPARCstations, HPs, DECstations to us) were the final nail in the coffin. Unbelievable to find PDP-11s in use, here and now! Regards Peter