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

[Rich Alderson]

> From: Brent Hilpert
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 12:08 PM

> Brent Hilpert wrote:
>>> Thanks for the explanation; so 'there is no story', so to speak.

 [snip]

> Perhaps I overstate it in saying 'there is no story'; if this 1960's
> machine was seen in substantially complete form (is that accurate?) at
> a DECUS event 20 years later in the 80's and hasn't been seen since,
> then certainly there is the disconcerting question of what happened to it.

1. The PDP-6 in question was the original Stanford Artificial Intelligence
   Laboratory system, later joined into a multi-processor configuration
   with a KA-10.  Subsequently, it was disconnected and the KA-10 joined
   to a KL-10.

2. In the autumn of 1984, the 20th Anniversary of 36-Bit Computing at DEC
   was celebrated at the DECUS Fall Symposium in Anaheim.  As part of this
   celebration, the SAIL PDP-6 was moved to Anaheim, and given to DEC to
   display at DECUS.

3. It left Anaheim for Massachusetts.

Thanks,
Rich Alderson