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That's when early Symbolics was barely running.

More detail about the next machine, the 3600, and its software/OS here: Symbolics 3600 Technical Summary, 1983

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/symbolics/3...



Indeed, the LM-2 was a repacked MIT AI Lab CADR, the 2nd version and the first to be put in serial production. As I recall being told, the wirewrap CPU and wirewrapped peripheral cards (Chaosnet LAN, disk controller and video) were converted to Multiwire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printed_circuit_board#Multiwir...), and the Multiwire memory cards were converted to PCBs (everyone wanted lots of DRAM). And of course packaged in something more convenient than a full height 19 inch rack.

As I recall, Symbolic ordered up parts and did 50 of them, and LMI 25 CADRs, and both really wished they'd planned on doing more of them. Although LMI perhaps more, we had at any one time around 3 CADRs in house, which were mainly used for CAD for designing the LMI LAMBDA, and some Z-80 CP/M machines to do documentation and the like.


Do you recall what software you were using on the CP/M machines for documentation?


Hmmm, I was on a CADR when I was on any computer at LMI; I don't think it was Electric Pencil, might have been WordStar, it was something generally familiar in its day that I'd heard of it before.




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