[TUHS] Collecting notes for future “historians” was: Earliest UNIX Workstations?

[Phil Budne]

Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2023 16:16:56 -0500
>
> > * What do I really mean by workstation? Ex.gr. If an installation had a
> > PDP-11 with a single terminal and operator, is it not a workstation? Is it
> > the integration of display into the system that differentiates?
>
> Certainly integration is critical. The display should be integral to the
> terminal, not simply an available device.
>
> Without that stipulation Ken's original single-user PDP-7 system would
> count (unless, perhaps, the system had not yet been christened "Unix").

Tho perhaps the EXACT same PDP-7 (in its original use as a prototype
for the PDP-9 based Graphic-2 circuit design/simulation system) would
qualify as a workstation?

Here's a 1965 video of the earlier (PDP-5 based?) Graphic-1 system in use:
https://techchannel.att.com/playvideo/2012/09/07/AT&T-Archives-Graphic-1

Both Graphic-1 and Graphic-2 were display "workstations" that fronted
for mainframes.