19 May
2000
19 May
'00
8:26 p.m.
On Sat, 20 May 2000, Lawrence LeMay wrote:
It's a PDP-8 that I believe was donated to them by the People's Computer
Company (I think it may have come from Lee Felsenstein).
History's
Lost and Found on the History Channel has a segment on the first
apple tonight. I haven't seen it yet. It is on now, 8-9PM PDT and repeated at
Midnight to 1:00am. As of 8:21 the segment has not aired.
Paxton
I videotaped it, at SLP speed unfortunately. I say unfortunately, since
I noticed for a very brief instant while they were panning across Liza
Loop's basement, a PDP 8 or 11. Just thought I'd mention it, perhaps someone
should volunteer to
take that machine off their hands, its certainly not being used in the
basement, with boxes of junk stacked on it, and sitting next to baskets
of old clothes. There is also a 'mystery box' that looks like it
Well, neither are all the machines we collectors have stacked in our
basements, doing pretty much nothing. In other words, she's a collector
(of sorts) too.
should be DEC equipment as well, it is the same size
as the 8/L, appears
to have a solid black front with a ACE switch in the lower left, has
the same milky white metal frame around the front panel, and there
is a large piece of old paper covering most of the rest of the front...
Expansion box for the 8/L perhaps?
It's been over a year since I was in there so I can't recall what this
was.
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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