3 Apr
2007
3 Apr
'07
7:56 p.m.
I have parts of a PDP-6 to PDP-10 interface prototype that came from
local salvage during the BCM era.
I am also aware of other hardware that went to BCM and died there.
Personally I don't discount this story at all.
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Donzelli" <wdonzelli at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: PDP-6 questions
> 3) Are
the stories about the Boston Computer Museum receiving a
> complete PDP-6 and then chopping it up to sell as gifts truth or
> urban legend?
Until someone comes up with hard evidence that BCM had one then
scrapped it - something like photographic evidence of the PDP-6 in the
collection, inclusion in an official inventory (and then not), or
otherwise - I discount it as just a story. Nearly everyone I have
talked to about it is very insistent about BCM scrapping a PDP-6, but
the sources of their information is always someone else with the same
unsupported and often inconsistent facts. Basically, the whole story
has too many of the red flags that make up a good urban legend.
I don't know about the BCM, but I have a
couple of boards from
decomissioned PDP-6's. They were not disassembled out of malice
but out of lack of facility to store them.
When was this?
--
Will