I'm hoping to start a thread that might answer some questions about
the PDP-6 that I've so far been unable to get resolved through Google
or other means. This is all mostly spurred on by finally getting
around to reading Steven Levy's "Hackers" after 23 years, and reading
about the role the PDP-6 played in the early Hacker culture around
MIT's Tech Square and Stanford's SAIL. It seems like the PDP-6 is
one of the least well preserved of DEC's systems, maybe even the
"Holy Grail" (at least to some folks).
Without further ado, the questions:
1) Are there any complete PDP-6s anywhere at all?
2) Does the Computer History Museum in Mountain View have any PDP-6
artifacts?
3) Are the stories about the Boston Computer Museum receiving a
complete PDP-6 and then chopping it up to sell as gifts truth or
urban legend?
4) Does any PDP-6 software still exist, especially PDP-6 ITS ? (I
haven't found any on Bitsavers, so I'm guessing the answer is "no")
5) Does anyone have any PDP-6 stories they'd like to share with the
group?
I'm hoping #5 spurs on some good discussion.
-Seth