PDP-10 REVIEW COMMITTEE

This 1976 interoffice memorandum from Ken Olsen to the PDP-10 Review Committee outlines the goals for a study on the future of the PDP-10 product line. Olsen requests that the committee analyze existing and potential market strategies, the scale of current and planned operations (including machine counts and marketing group sizes), and the rationale behind market penetration. Additionally, he requests a comparative analysis of marketing and engineering costs for the PDP-10/20 against other internal and external benchmarks.