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    Information Research Services Updated: 25 September 1997
         
             
                 
              The PDP-7A is introduced.
                 
              April:
Introduction of the
PDP-8, the world's first mass-produced minicomputer.
                 
              November:
In what is believed to be the earliest example of around-the-world networking, a link is made by operating a
PDP-6 in Perth, Australia from Boston via a telex link.