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Re: What's a PDP-24?

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by: Lars Brinkhoff - Tue, 22 Mar 2022 09:12 UTC

Pat Barron wrote:
> In looking through some old DEC memos on bitsavers.org concerning
> "PDP-X" (a proposed, but never built, DEC computer), I saw an
> interesting tidbit about how this machine was intended to "replace the
> present PDP-8, PDP-9, and PDP-24".
> I have no idea what a PDP-24 is ... DEC never produced anything with a
> designation higher than PDP-16 (and even that wasn't even a "real"
> computer, more a "roll your own machine out of RTM modules" kind of
> thing). All I can think of is that maybe it was some kind of souped-up
> PDP-12. Anyone know?
> Link to the document I am referring to at
> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp-x/03.pdf, if you want to look...

Sorry (not really) for necroposting.

I also stumbled over this memo, and was also curious about this PDP-24.

Here are two places that mention PDP-24:
https://www.metafilter.com/100347/There-is-no-reason-for-any-individual-to-have-a-computer-in-his-home-RIP-Ken-Olsen-founder-of-Digital-Equipment-Corporation
http://vipclubmn.org/cpothers.html
I sent out some emails. The first really refers to a PDP-11/24.
The second should say DDP-24.