10 May
2001
10 May
'01
7:32 p.m.
Good NY Times article on Len Shustek and the gang (free registration
needed):
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/10/technology/10MUSE.html
Exerpt:
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TWELVE years ago, Keith Uncapher, a computer scientist at the RAND
Corporation, was shocked to discover that the Johnniac, a behemoth of a
computer he had helped develop in the 1950's, had been left out to rust in
a parking lot behind the Museum of Science and Industry in Los Angeles.
After some hasty negotiations, Mr. Uncapher managed to rescue the computer
before it was trucked off to a junkyard. Now the one-of-a-kind Johnniac,
named for the computer pioneer John von Neumann, is safely ensconced 350
miles north, at the Computer Museum History Center here.
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