23 Dec
2016
23 Dec
'16
2:03 p.m.
Noel Chiappa wrote:
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 (an MIT alternative undergrad program) -- after it walked
across the street to Bldg. 20, the KA still ran, but had no memory,
since its latest memory incarnation was all modified LispM Mem boards,
which were given to needy Lispms when the Lab flushed the machine. i
think the Concourse hackers have since had access to more of these Mem
boards, but they have not (alas!) managed to bring the KA up in
full-fledged fashion.