Stanford's PDP-6 ( was Re: Hardware Hobbyists vs. EmulatorJockeys)

That's a fine defence, however the facts still stand. The list I have seen shows no more than a dozen PDP-6 being made and shipped. The Stanford Six was exihibited at the Decus twenty year bash. When I was at DEC we were No2 to IBM. So we have a machine made early in the history of a big player. Its exhibited at a large convention, goes back to a DEC warehouse and some years later a small part of it is handed over. There is one small chance of finding out the truth. DEC had a group called the Traditional Product Line. Their remit was to supply parts for obsolete systems. If anyone knew what happend to it then would have been them. Rod Smallwood I collect and restore old DEC computer equipment -----Original Message----- From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Eric Smith Sent: 18 June 2009 19:27 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Stanford's PDP-6 ( was Re: Hardware Hobbyists vs. EmulatorJockeys) Rod Smallwood wrote: and Museums can't save everything that is of historical interest, because there are simply too many things that are of interest, and museums have very limited budgets, staff, and space. It is also often not completely clear which items are of historical interest until many years later. It should be noted that although the Computer History Museum in Mountain View is a spinoff of The Computer Museum in Boston, CHM is *entirely* focused on the preservation of computer history, while TCM had multiple objectives and preservation of computer history was not necessarily their highest priority at all times. That is one of the factors that led to the creation of CHM (originally The Computer Museum History Center). All indications to date are that CHM has exercised the utmost diligence in the stewardship of historical artifacts, and that this can be expected to continue in the future. Eric