17 Jun
2009
17 Jun
'09
12:55 a.m.
Rich Alderson wrote:
On the other hand, the last PDP-6 in existence was
destroyed by the Computer
Museum in Boston about 20 years ago, so you're one up there.
OK, I don't think I've heard this story.
Someone contributing to Wikipedia seems to want to tangentially counter it,
without explaining the background story.
I heard some mention of strange management decisions near the end of the BCM,
but 1989 was somewhat early, no?
From wikipedia:
"Stanford's PDP-6 was
shown at DECUS in 1984. The machine was transferred to a
DEC warehouse after that event. There are no records of this machine being
given to the Computer Museum, which was not part of DEC in 1984. In the late
90's Compaq donated the contents of the DEC internal archives to The Computer
Museum History Center. The Fast Memory cabinet from the Stanford PDP-6 was part
of that donation. There is no evidence that the modules sold at the Boston
computer museum gift shop were from the Stanford PDP-6, nor is there any
evidence that the museum had ever had this machine in its possession."