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Document:	720612 PDP-15
Order Number:	XX-9CFB7-C0
Revision:	1
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TO:

Stan Olsen
/Ken Olsen

INTEROFFICE

MEMORANDUM

DATE:
FROM:

DEPT:
SUBJ:

During this past Product Line Manger1s meeting the PDP-15 was discussed with respect
to the "RSX ENG IN E" •
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The discussion got around to the future of the PDP-15 and how to keep it alive.
Should someone who loves it take it over etc.

I don It knov$ if I was expected to stand up and shout II I WI LL" •

I realize that the field has typed us with obsolete products, and if the PDP-12 or
PDP-15 became traditional, it would infer the death of the product. (This worries
me somewhat.) I think we should stop iust trying to convince the world that the
PDP-15 isn It dead and do someth ing to keep it alive.
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Mechanically repackage.
Re-name - PDP-18, SYS-15, etc.
Hire a oDP-15 Programming Manager and establish a dynamic
programm ing group located in the Product Line.
Advertise and promote.
·Set up a New York City Demonstration and Customer Programming
Center.
Do some engineering, i.e.: new products like RK05, LP, Core,
RSX Eng ine, etc.
Get the other daughter lines to put in some money for Engineering,
Programming, Advertising, etc.
'T reat it I ike a new product.

What worries me most is the 1100 customers out there (600 PDP-15 and 500 PDP-9)
who will be verbal and unhappy if the PDP-15 fails.

I usually talk too much at these meetings, but do want to quietly pass on my suggestions
for what they are worth.

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