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    Information Research Services Updated: 24 November 1997
         
             
                 
              Flip Chip modules are developed.
                 
              July:
The first European Customer Training Center opens in Reading, England.
                     
              October:
Digital unveils its first 36-bit computer, the
PDP-6.
                 
              Tops 10 is developed as the major user software interface for Digital's 36-bit machines.
                 
              December:
The
PDP-7, Digital's third 18-bit computer, is introduced.
                 
              DECtape is introduced concurrent with the PDP-7.
                 
              December:
DIGITAL is issued its first patent, for
magnetic core memory. The inventors are Ken Olsen and Dick Best.