27 Dec
2016
27 Dec
'16
4:47 p.m.
Noel Chiappa wrote:
Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
Well, apparently Michael Patton asked GILL at AI:
Noel Chiappa wrote:
Oh, right, now that you mention it, I very vaguely recall this.
I'm
not sure why I thought they had taken a KA too - I think I may have
been confused by this email: Swedes showed up at MIT with a shipping container
(perhaps under the
mistaken impression that Cambridge was Lindisfarne ;-), and loaded the
KL into it, along with, IIRC, one of the KA ITS machines - possibly
AI?
I have this on AI:
> the semi-original AI (that is, the KA-10 rather than the PDP-6) was
> flushed 3 years ago. the hardware was given to a bunch of hackers from
> Concourse The Swedes are here picking up the KL-10. They have a
really big
container and are interested in other things they might pick up. They
expressed some interest in the old MIT-AI KA-10 that you have in
storage. Can they have it? Do you want to arrange some time for them
to come get it, or can I just do it?
So maybe they got it after all!