Stanford's PDP-6 ( was Re: Hardware Hobbyists vs. Emulator Jockeys)

John Foust jfoust at threedee.com
Wed Jun 17 14:47:53 CDT 2009


At 11:55 PM 6/16/2009, Brent Hilpert wrote:
>Rich Alderson wrote:
>> On the other hand, the last PDP-6 in existence was destroyed by the Computer
>> Museum in Boston about 20 years ago, so you're one up there.

I have one of his signed PDP-6 gift-shop cards and an email from Gordon Bell 
saying these "To my knowledge, the museum has never engaged in gutting 
machines for components, although I would happily agree that this is 
a good idea when we have duplicates and crippled or partial artifacts."

- John




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