18 Jun
2009
18 Jun
'09
12:07 p.m.
Brent Hilpert wrote:
Thanks for the explanation; so 'there is no
story', so to speak.
Rod Smallwood wrote:
Everybody saying 'not I' does not alter the
fact that a priceless piece of
computer history is at best missing and at worst destroyed.
The real point is that the computer museum people knew of its existence and
yet failed in their duty to recover and save it after the DECUS event.
Shame on you all!!
Perhaps I overstate it in saying 'there is no story'; if this 1960's machine
was seen in substantially complete form (is that accurate?) at a DECUS event 20
years later in the 80's and hasn't been seen since, then certainly there is the
disconcerting question of what happened to it.
But at this distance in time, people, institutions and events, I'm not about to
cast aspersions or point fingers as to who was responsible.