12 Jun
2004
12 Jun
'04
3:49 p.m.
define
smarmy
??
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From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: MIT Dumbkopf 1 computer
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Jim Battle wrote:
Festival
Some time back on the vintage computer
marketplace
(http://marketplace.vintage.org/), somebody listed a "dumpkopf 1"
computer, but only the most vague information was given about it. I
think there was some speculation here that it was maybe a hoax, and that
no information could be found about it on the internet.
I accidentally stumbled upon the machine at this web site; I suspect
that this guy was the lister in that marketplace ad:
http://community-2.webtv.net/ARCHAICAUDIO/WESTERNELECTRIC/page15.html
Yes, that is his website.
It looks to be very interesting, perhaps
significant, but certainly
inoperable. The web page has a number of very interesting pictures of
the computer, and says that the tubes have a 1954 date stamp on them.
There are some large patch panels on the machine, so perhaps it wasn't a
general purpose programmable computer (in fact, the name implies the
machine isn't all that smart!)
Unfortunately, he was too smarmy to get any useful information out of.
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
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