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

[Mike Hatch]

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From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
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Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:04 PM
Subject: [personal] Re: Stanford's PDP-6 ( was Re: Hardware Hobbyists vs. 
EmulatorJockeys)


>> The real point is that the computer museum people knew of its existence 
>> and
>> yet failed in their duty to recover and save it after the DECUS event.
>
> What SHOULD they do when they know of existence of a machine, and the
> OWNER of the machine intends to scrap it rather than give it to the
> museum?
>
> What do you do?
>
Plead, beg, make the best case for recovery they can to the owner, offer to 
do the work of removal at no cost to the owner, Etc.

Mike.

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