24 May
2005
24 May
'05
7:01 a.m.
>>>> "Vintage" == Vintage
Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> writes:
Vintage> On Thu, 19 May 2005, William Donzelli wrote:
> > Lot of what is rare stuff in that pic (like
the RF08 on his
> left..)
>
> By the way, the original plac ethat picture was used was an old
> National Geographic. I recall the same page has a picture of one
> of the piles as ILLIAC 4 was being scrapped.
Vintage> Are you talking about the November 1970 issue of National
Vintage> Geopgraphic?
Can't be -- Illiac 4 was either not yet in existence, or alive and
well -- certainly not scrapped. I remember it was a running system
while I was at the U of Illinois in the late 1970s -- occasionally
visiting the building where it was supposed to have been installed.
(It ended up on a military base instead, because DoD was paying for
the machine and decided they didn't like to put it on a campus full of
hippy protestors... but by then the building had already been
constructed.)
paul