25 Jun
2015
25 Jun
'15
4:31 a.m.
On 24 June 2015 at 14:19, Johnny Billquist <bqt at update.uu.se> wrote:
Oh, I know. I'm from Sweden. We had a very big
scandal where 5 containers
with a VAX-11/782 and peripherials or something like that was found under
strange circumstances. When the whole thing started to be investigated
suddenly no one seemed to know or own those containers. The system was
unclaimed for years, and it became a question of what to do with it, since
no one seemed to claim it. I think it was eventually decided that since DEC
made it, it was returned to them. The original shipping destination was of
course somewhere in Soviet Union. This was in the early 80s... I'm sure
someone can find the full story online somewhere.
It's mentioned in the Datasaab article on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datasaab
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