26 Jun
2015
26 Jun
'15
11:46 p.m.
I had a private conversation with Stephen(who started the
nekochan thread) and he said that some things have gone back to
donors and that they will keep some select items. The 8/s is one
of the machines that they are keeping.
I get the imprwssion that it's a rather controlled an
responsible shutdown.
/P
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 12:27:59PM -0700, Brendan Shanks wrote:
Yep they started selling/giving away their collection
few months ago:
http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?t=16729439
Brendan
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:58 AM, jwsmobile <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:
>
> Does anyone have access to the museum that was at Austin Goodwill? It
> seems to be going out on ebay as we speak. Also there is a bidder for the
> good stuff that has vacuumed up 90% of the stuff, so I'm smelling some sort
> of thing going one.
>
> They have a PDP8/S and they just sold off a significant artifact related
> to that, which is what has me wondering. I'm going to call and see if
> anyone has a story that way, but wondered if anyone here has any info too.
>
> There are a lot of nice things going out which could have explanations as
> being recent donations, but not the 8/s artifact. It seems to be custom
> related to the 8/s.
>
> thanks
> Jim
>
>