Stanford Interest in a PDP-1
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Published By: Digital Equipment Corporation
To: Ben Gurley
cc: Harlan Anderson
During the ISA Show Andy received a call from John Mc Carthy at Stanford University saying that he was interested in a PDP-1. I called him back the next day and talked with him about the general problem. He ls very interested in a PDP-1 because he has his teaching programs already written with that computer. He didn't have the money initially but he does feel he can get it. I told him I thought we could give him a 10% discount but he was a litle disappointed with how small this discount was. I think it would be important for us to get a PDP-1 out there and so I suggest that you follow up on this and feel him out as to how much discount we would have to give him in order to sell the machine there. I think we might go as high as 20 or 25% discount.