ROLF!!! Can I borrow a PDP-1???? I wanna get in on this deal!!!
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Chuck McManis wrote:
Deer Sir;
I have just been given three ENIAC machines to display in a museum but they
are currently in Nigeria where they were used for nuclear weapons testing.
I can get them and preserve them for the National Museum of Science but I
need your help. They won't believe I am a serious collector unless I can
show them that I own a working PDP-1. I need you to box up and ship me a
working PDP-1 so that I can set it up and show it to them. Then they will
send me the three ENIACs by first class air mail. I will keep one, send one
to the museum and you can keep one. You will agree that an ENIAC, the first
digital computer, is much more valuable than a PDP-1 so you will understand
that I must keep the PDP-1 just in case they do a "surprise" inspection.
Thank you for your help, it is a good cause.
Sincerely,
Prof. Peabody.
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