8 Nov
2012
8 Nov
'12
1:56 a.m.
On 2012 Nov 7, at 7:51 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 11/7/12 7:00 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
It would be interesting if Johnniac has been saved, I don't recall
knowing of any of the IAS clones surviving.
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Well, there it is at the CHM !:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOHNNIAC
"..being used almost continuously from 1953 for over 13 years before
finally being shut down on February 11, 1966, logging over 50,000
operational hours.
After two "rescues" from the scrap heap, the machine currently
resides at the
Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
It appears it's on display, it shows up in the Visible Storage/
40s-60s/one-of-a-kinds section:
http://www.computerhistory.org/VirtualVisibleStorage/
Strange it didn't show up in your catalog search.
A question would be whether CHM also has the earlier "prototype JOSS
station" the report suggested went to LACM with Johnniac.
At the bottom of page iii (pdf page 5) it says
Johnniac and a JOSS
console were retired to the Los Angeles County Museum in 1966.
Anyone know the current status of this?
CHM may have it. I didn't find it with a quick catalog search.
The manual is at
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp-6/H-616_JOSSconsole_Mar66.pdf