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    Information Research Services Updated: 28 April 1998
          Correct!
           
        The PDP-6 was operated and programmed from Boston using a 12,000 mile, 5 hole telex code. It proved very difficult to generate a control C in 5 hole code. At one point in the session, Robin Frith in Perth asks Alan Kotok in Massachusetts, "Do you think you could let us poor Aussies have a bit of core?" Pictured is Alan Kotok seated at a PDP-6 while Gordon Bell looks on.
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