8 May
2010
8 May
'10
6:51 p.m.
From: mcguire at neurotica.com
Subject: Re: Last day for John Blankenbaker's Kenbak-1
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 21:38:57 -0400
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
On May 8, 2010, at 9:30 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
Apparently other people have different ideas of why it's
important. Lack of commonality and lack of influence in the future
are only two possible things that one might find important.
Why am I a PDP-11 fanatic? Because I LIKE them, nothing more. I
couldn't care less about the fact that it was an influential
architecture with common implementations. This is just an example.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Anybody consider the fact/possibility that these auctions are not real?
Rare does not equate to value. Heck, smack myself, 15 years ago I put 8 19" ISC
InterColor on the sidewalk for the trash.
Wish I had one or two back now.
Somebody perhaps loves this stuff, just to look at it. I think the group here more likely
USES IT, in the form of restoration of the hardware or emulation of the code if there is
no (or cant afford) the hardware.
Randy
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Wow ....
with 20 seconds to go, it jumped from 9900 to 20100, then
with
five seconds to go it jumped to 25600, then ended.
I can appreciate some degree of added value for this particular
unit giving
it's direct providence to Blankenbaker, and as much I might think
the Kenbak is
neat for technical reasons such as a minimal processor made from
SSI/MSI
devices, bit-serial architecture, and so on, this is one where I
really scratch
my head over the dollar value people are placing on them, given
their obscurity
in their day and relative lack of influence on computing development.
(just MHO ...)