13 Jan
2009
13 Jan
'09
12:39 p.m.
From: Dave McGuire
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:19 AM
On Jan 12, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
[snip]
> Two were sold to MCI/BT Tymnet, to replace their 4
KL-10 systems.
> These were retired shortly after the turn of the century, and placed
> into the hands of the gentlemen responsible for their being placed
> into service at Tymshare. One is still in private hands; the other
> was scrapped by an operation manager who did not know what he was
> doing (or perhaps he did).
> One went to Digital in exchange for a revision of
the licensing
> contract for 36-bit software. It is now in the possession of the
> Computer History Museum.
> One was purchased by Paul Allen, and is freely
available for public
> access. Accounts can be requested through the PDP Planet web site,
> under the Community button.
> One was given to a well-known collector of PDP-10
equipment who has
> been a friend to the owner of XKL since the early days of cisco
> Systems. It included the only copy of the Tops-10 port for the
> Toad-1.
And one is in the possession of my acquaintance
Peter Lothberg,
unless that's who you're talking about in the last paragraph. (he
has done a lot of work for Cisco)
Mm-hmm.
He was one of cisco's first customers in Europe. His friend, the
owner of XKL, co-founded cisco Systems. Notice that I didn't use
*anyone's* name who has not made ownership of a Toad-1 public
knowledge.
Rich Alderson
Server Engineer, PDPplanet Project
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
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