18 Jun
2009
18 Jun
'09
1:53 p.m.
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Brent Hilpert wrote:
Yes there is, and those who are closer to it might speak to that, but it's not
clear to me what your point is in the context of how it came to be lost. That
it was SAIL's might add to it's significance, that it was a 20-year-old PDP-6
was nonetheless itself of some significance.
However, for a machine like the PDP-6 to have survived 20 years was remarkable
by the 80's. It would seem from the discussion that in the case of the SAIL
machine there was recognition and interest in it's historicity even then, it
was known to and around people who might appreciate it, so it is more
perplexing that it cannot now be found.
There's a distinct possibility that this particular machine had been
considered historic, not because it's a PDP-6, but because it's *SAIL's*
PDP-6.