18 Jun
2009
18 Jun
'09
12:41 p.m.
From: Brent Hilpert
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 12:08 PM
Brent Hilpert wrote:
>> Thanks for the explanation; so 'there is no story', so to speak.
[snip]
Perhaps I overstate it in saying 'there is no
story'; if this 1960's
machine was seen in substantially complete form (is that accurate?) at
a DECUS event 20 years later in the 80's and hasn't been seen since,
then certainly there is the disconcerting question of what happened to it.
1. The PDP-6 in question was the original Stanford Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory system, later joined into a multi-processor configuration
with a KA-10. Subsequently, it was disconnected and the KA-10 joined
to a KL-10.
2. In the autumn of 1984, the 20th Anniversary of 36-Bit Computing at DEC
was celebrated at the DECUS Fall Symposium in Anaheim. As part of this
celebration, the SAIL PDP-6 was moved to Anaheim, and given to DEC to
display at DECUS.
3. It left Anaheim for Massachusetts.
Thanks,
Rich Alderson