19 Mar
1998
19 Mar
'98
1:43 p.m.
At 09:29 3/19/98 -0800, you wrote:
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I will be cataloging the contents of the six boxes of 'stuff' that I have
within, hopefully, the week.
Am curious -- where did you get your Symbolics and do you know what the
model number is?
Subject:
Symbolics 3650..
Question - I very recently obtained a Symbolics 3650 lisp machine -- along
with six large boxes of associated 'stuff'. With luck, I hope to get this
beast back to life -- it apparently worked prior to being shipped to me (by
truck) but I obviously expect some problems. Does anyone on the List have
any experience or have any available spare parts or documentation -- or,
most important, actual experience with Symbolics lisp machines???
I also have a big Symbolics and supposedly some documentation, but I
haven't opened any of the boxes so I don't know whats there. I don't
have any experience with these machines and don't expect to be able to
try mine any time soon, but other than that would be happy to share
experiences. I also have contacts in a shop that ran them fairly
recently, but they are a startup (of sorts) so don't have spare time to
hold our hands.
Corresponded with a fellow who has a complete listing of LISP 1.5, we
talked about how to get it into machine readable form so it could run on
a 7090 emulator. Definitely something I'd like to see happen. If you run
across any LISP on 7-track tape I can read it.
That is, I think, me -- Paul, we were last in contact almost a year ago...
I am still, slowly, working on the 7090 emulator and hope to have it alive
sometime this year...
Regards
Jack
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