2 Aug
2004
2 Aug
'04
10:22 p.m.
Chandra, Mike,
I was delighted to have purchased the Xerox Alto-I
from John and Heather several months ago.
I was equally excited when I purchased from John
the McMasterUniv/KevinStumpf PDP-15 several years ago.
I used/programmed both of these machines long ago at Xerox PARC
and Arizona State University, respectively.
I invited Chuck Thacker (designer) & Ron Cude over soon
after the Alto-I arrived to review the boards and discuss
a bring-up strategy. Although I'm progressing very slowly,
I've been reforming/checking the caps/power supplies.
OK so far.
Some day I'll get info up on a web site to share...
- Robert
p.s. Check out "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the
Dawn of the Computer Age". A generally accurate technical
history of PARC during the 70's/80's.
Message: 6
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 13:59:30 +0000
From: "Mike Ross" <mross666(a)hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Xerox Alto Restoration + Emulation
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Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 23:32:18 -0400
From: "Chandra Bajpai" <cbajpai(a)comcast.net>
Subject: Xerox Alto Restoration + Emulation
Has anyone every heard of these guys.they seem to
up in Canada and are
painstakingly restoring an Xerox Alto I since April 2003.
<snip>
That would be the Bordynuiks, Heather & John IIRC. They had a bunch of
stuff
on ebay a while back, bought some pdp-11/20 memory from them. Other
than
that my contact with them has been minimal.
They own pdp8.com - they had some nice stuff, including a nice pdp-15
with
drum IIRC. Think Robert Garner has that one now...
The Alto restoration is one *very* impressive bit of work, they're
serious
hardware engineers - seem to recall they also (according to rumour) had
something to do with Paul Allen and his KL...
Mike
http://www.corestore.org
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