18 Feb
1998
18 Feb
'98
4:13 a.m.
Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram(a)cnct.com> wrote:
Did the cops catch up with you after you caught up
with him? Did he die
slowly enough to encourage the rest of us to discourage the metal dealers?
We all start dying the moment we're born, how do you expect Sam to
slow that down?
Anyway, this thread got me thinking about a note I saw in comp.sys.super
a couple of weeks back. Here it is, cut'n'pasted from DejaNews. Just
some things for y'all to think about.
-Frank McConnell
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Subject: Re: Thinking Machines...
From: eugene(a)george.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Date: 1998/02/04
Message-ID: <6b9dut$k445(a)news.arc.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
In article <34de7adc.64515852(a)news-s02.ny.us.ibm.net>
abaddon(a)ibm.net (Michael Ross) writes:
Several Cray beasts have found their way into museums,
but I am
unaware of any TMC machines that have been preserved - and I know of
several that have been scrapped...
Several.
TCM has a CM-1, a CM-2, and a CM-5 by recollection.
Brewster Kahle has kept at least one in his basement (so told).
I have yet to attend one of his parties to examine it.
The fundamental problem appears to be a guy in Hollywood who has taken
to supply electronics as props for movie sets who is attempting to
corner the market. I can view a piece of the SAGE system, and I think
similar panels have been used on television like the Irwin Allen series
Time Tunnel.
Does anyone know of any that may be got rid of in the
near (or
not-so-near) future? Preferably in Europe? Particularly the earlier
CM-2 and CM-200 models (pre-sparc). Someone has got to make a point of
saving one, and I would fancy the job ( It'll make a change from
saving pdp-8's and DEC 10's :-)
Come to think of it, if anyone knows any other serious boxes being got
rid of, please let me know...
"That would be telling."
Oh, there are several people working on this. It depends on your intent.
I can tell you, you have "heavy-weight" competition. Saving this stuff
is a lot more expensive than most people realized.
And then there is Tony Cole.....
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