Us vs. Museums

6 Mar 2001

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  I'm not an authority on distinctions, just a
visitor offering my
 concern to preserve what's best for learning purposes.  
 OK, in your opinion, what machines are important to preserve for learning 
 purposes (or for any other purpose you'd care to suggest). I am seriously 
 interested....

Just to jump into the conversation... Some of these old computers are still
being used for teaching purposes. There is a class taught at a community
college in minneapolis that actually has the students programming on
a PDP 8/E (that they have to borrow from another community college
each time). If they had their own pdp 8 computers, maybe they could
offer the course more often. So, there are uses for older, simpler
to understand computers.

-Lawrence LeMay

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