[TUHS] Earliest UNIX Workstations?

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Thu Jan 26 17:33:30 AEST 2023


On Thu, 26 Jan 2023, John Cowan wrote:

> WP says the Terak 8510/a was the first graphical workstation; it came 
> out in 1976-77 and ran the UCSD p-System.  I had never heard of it 
> before. The first *personal* workstation (non-graphical) was probably 
> the IBM 1620 (aka the CADET system, "Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try") from 
> 1959.

Mmm...  Would a GT-40 connected to a PDP-11/40 count as a workstation?  I 
started using that around 1975 (along with serial terminals, of course), 
in my first job at Uni of NSW (after graduating from there).

-- Dave


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