Acquiring a bunch of Lisp Machines

Josh Dersch derschjo at gmail.com
Fri Sep 25 12:54:06 CDT 2015


On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Sean Caron <scaron at umich.edu> wrote:

> I would call that like ... a frustratingly nice score, LOL. Lots of
> Symbolics equipment saved which is a huge plus, but if it were me, I'd
> rather have one Ivory machine that ran, versus a whole pallet of 3620s and
> 3640s with bad drives ... it'll be interesting to see if he's ever able to
> get one of them up and running.
>
> Funny he does not recognize the famous VSXXX-AA! One of the best mice ever
> made, IMO :O
>
> Best,
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com> wrote:
>
> > He's going to find it rough going in trying to get the machines running
> > with new/empty disks.  :-(  It's one
> > of the fears that I have for my 3620 and 3640's in that I'd like to have
> > replacement disks but without the
> > manufacturing mojo, there's no way to put Genera and the bootstrap and
> > uCode on a blank disk.
> >
> > TTFN - Guy
> >
> >
> > On 9/25/15 7:09 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> >
> >> Just stumbled across this. I don't know what more to the story there is.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://kremlin.enterprises/post/129364443055/your-code-is-so-bad-we-had-to-make-etclocal
> >>
> >>
> >
>


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