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Seeing the success of the LINC, in 1963 DEC took the basic logic design but stripped away the extensive A to D systems to produce the PDP-5.

The new machine, the first outside the PDP-1 mould, was introduced at WESTCON on 11 August 1963.

A 1964 ad expressed the main advantage of the PDP-5, " Now you can own the PDP-5 computer for what a core memory alone used to cost: $ 27, 000 " 116 PDP-5s were produced until the lines were shut down in early 1967.

Like the PDP-1 before it, the PDP-5 inspired a series of newer models based on the same basic design that would go on to be more famous than its parent.