Re: disposition of largest private DEC collection in USA

From: Bob Kaplow (kaplow_r_at_encompasserve.org.TRABoD)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: 25 Jan 2005 12:41:52 -0600

In article <+Mjfg+oTcKYR@eisner.encompasserve.org>, koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <egWULtMBxnfX@eisner.encompasserve.org>, kaplow_r@encompasserve.org.TRABoD (Bob Kaplow) writes:
>>
>> There's a straight-8 near the PDP-15. I went through the information age
>> exhibit last summer. Scary to see stuff there that I'd worked on.
>
> Yep. And I had the same thing happen to me when I went through the
> Air and Space annex out at Dulles. Not just the same model of
> computer, _the same computer_.

I was there the same week. What computers were displayed out there?

One guy in our party admitted that there was an artifact on display that he
had designed! And they still have an entire airplane of his at Garber,
waiting for a place to display it.

Of course the most popular question is why couldn't the founder of Fed Ex
have donated the $60M so we could spell & pronounce the name of the museum
:-)

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