This was a hit, eventually selling over 10,000 copies in three publishing runs in July 1973, April 1974, and March 1975.

By 1974, the team had produced two new designs, a PDP-8 combined with a VT50 terminal, and a briefcase-sized version of the PDP-8 with a small floppy disk that would be used with an external computer terminal. Other divisions within DEC saw these inexpensive machines as a threat