Final Xerox Star demo - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Jun 1998

Do you mean the Boston Computer Museum specifically, or someplace
else? I find it hard to believe that a computer museum would do
something like that!
...
 machines, I'd make sure that _no_ rare/classic
computers got anywhere 
near that museum!

Is it just me, or are most museums clueless when it comes to electronic 
exhibits? I've come across a museum that refuses to complete its PDP8  as 
...
 the 2 cards I offered them that they were missing were
made a few years 
after the the machine itself. This is a machine that was in use and  taken 
...
 out of service BTW, so it's unlikely that all the
cards were original. 
Another collection I know about has managed to misplace a PDP12, a 
PDP11/70 and all the printsets for them. Losing a board I can  understand, 
...
 but 6' racks???

> 
> One question though, wasent the Xerox 820 basically the same as the  Alto?
...

Only in the sense that both were computers :-)

They had different CPUs (z80, as against a custom 16 bit thing), mass 
storage (the Alto almost certainly had a hard disk), video (the Alto  was 
...
 bitmapped), keyboad, OS/user interface, etc.

-tony

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