Chips as jewelry

[Brent Hilpert]

On 2010 Sep 13, at 1:44 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>
> The epitome of this was the Honeywell animal sculptures made from
> parts used as advertising primarily for their H200 systems back in
> the 70's.  Remarkable stuff and quite beautiful.
>
> I've always wondered if Honeywell simply allowed the sculptor to
> wander through the parts crib, selecting anything (regardless of
> cost) that caught his eye.

Ed Thelen has some info about them:
   http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/TheCompMusRep/TCMR-V13.html#Animals

Need some good colour photos. Apparently six of them are on display at 
the museum (CHM).

I remember my 10-year-old self at the time, who was always scraping 
around for parts, thinking it was an awful waste of components.