[TUHS] Spacewar at Bell Labs [ really paper tape readers and tangentially related things ]

[Dave Horsfall]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2020, Noel Chiappa wrote:

> Wow! WD created the QBUS? Fascinating. I wonder if DEC made any changes 
> to the QBUS between the original demo WD boards and the first DEC ones? 
> Are there any documents about the WD original still extant, do you know?

Which reminds me: I heard a story that DEC did not implement the Unibus as 
specified, in order to lock out 3rd-party vendors; apparently the timing 
was not quite right.  You couldn't complain to DEC because it was not 
their gear, and you couldn't complain to the vendor because they followed 
the spec...

-- Dave