18 Jan
2017
18 Jan
'17
12:10 a.m.
MOBIDEC?
Very funny. :)
For those who aren't aware: Doug is making a play on words about MOBIDIC, a project (of which I'm quite fond) between the Army and Sylvania, from 1956.
Is this the first documented mobile DEC computer?
Doug -- the literal answer to your question depends on when that photograph appeared vs. when in 1965 DEC installed a PDP-6 in a trailer for Brookhaven National Laboratory. See "Communications of the ACM", Vol. 8, No. 4 (April 1965), page 253, or see page 27 of my book. Yes indeed- it could be a close race indeed since its wiki says the pdp-8 was introduced Mar 22, 1965!
What's the source of the picture you posted via CHM?