(This is part 10 in a series on the scientific method.)In 1966, well within living memory as I write this in 2024, Digital Equipment Corporation released the PDP-10, later rebranded as the DECsystem-10 or, more colloquially, the DEC-10. The base model cost over $100,000 in 1966 dollars, well over a million dollars today. For that price you got 8,192 words of memory, each being 36 bits
