3 Oct
1999
3 Oct
'99
6:21 a.m.
Oh, and "MOON LANDER PROGRAM" was *explicity* written on the requisition...
8-)
At 10:18 AM 10/3/99 -0500, classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu wrote:
The information I have indicates that the University of
Wisconsin paid
$10,200 for one in 1975. But that was a bid, and the quote returned
indicated that it was a GT40-AA "Demonstrator Model". So, it was probably
not new, and was presumably discounted. I actually obtained that machine
later on, and restored it.
By the way, I am curious where you got your lander program... I ask
because a few
years back, I contacted Jack (via a pointer from the Computer
Museum in Boston), and what he had was a 9 -Track tape that he had gotten
from someone who had preserved a copy while he was at
the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He sent me the tape, and I read it and
returned the
contents to him, including the lander program, some demo programs, etc.
Jay Jaeger
At 09:07 AM 10/3/99 +0000, you wrote:
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Jay R. Jaeger The Computer Collection
Jay.Jaeger(a)msn.fullfeed.com visit http://www.msn.fullfeed.com/~cube
Does anyone happen to recall the original price of
the DEC GT40
graphics terminal? I'm exhibiting one at the VCF, running the
famouus Lunar Lander game by Jack Burness, and several people have
asked me what the terminal originally sold for.
Thanks!
Eric
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/dec/gt40/