18 Jun
2009
18 Jun
'09
8:01 a.m.
Everybody saying 'not I' does not alter the
fact that a priceless piece of
computer history is at best missing and at worst destroyed.
The real point is that the computer museum people knew of its existence and
yet failed in their duty to recover and save it after the DECUS event.
Let's get this in perspective - this was a LONG time ago, and 20 year
old computers were thought of as scrap. There was almost no community
of people interested in seriously saving older computer technology.
PDP-6? Get in line, machine. There are dozens, maybe hundreds of other
important machines from that era that also were scrapped.
--
Will