PDP-6s at MIT
Lars Brinkhoff
lars at nocrew.org
Tue Dec 27 10:47:26 CST 2016
Noel Chiappa wrote:
>Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
>> Noel Chiappa wrote:
>>> Swedes showed up at MIT with a shipping container (perhaps under the
>>> mistaken impression that Cambridge was Lindisfarne ;-), and loaded the
>>> KL into it, along with, IIRC, one of the KA ITS machines - possibly
>>> AI?
>>
>> I have this on AI:
>>
>>> the semi-original AI (that is, the KA-10 rather than the PDP-6) was
>>> flushed 3 years ago. the hardware was given to a bunch of hackers from
>>> Concourse
> Oh, right, now that you mention it, I very vaguely recall this. I'm
> not sure why I thought they had taken a KA too - I think I may have
> been confused by this email:
Well, apparently Michael Patton asked GILL at AI:
> The Swedes are here picking up the KL-10. They have a really big
> container and are interested in other things they might pick up. They
> expressed some interest in the old MIT-AI KA-10 that you have in
> storage. Can they have it? Do you want to arrange some time for them
> to come get it, or can I just do it?
So maybe they got it after all!
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