EDSAC on your desk.

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Mon Sep 21 23:42:12 1998

At 02:27 AM 22-09-98 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:

>Well, I doubt if a DECsystem 10 would be larger than the collection I
>already have. So I would have thought it wouldn't be impossible to run
>one personally.. Ditto for the other machines...

It's just that there are so many circuits in a -10 that getting one to run
(even when new) required a full time field service engineer and with age
(our -10 was delivered in 1973 so if it were still here it'd be 25 years
old) I'd expect the probability of it running would be close to zero. The
maintenance fiche is about a foot deep....

>True. The ideal situation would be for madmen like ourselves to continue
>preserving the real machines _and_ for simulators to be available.

Couldn't agree more, which is why you find a PDP-8A in my office although I
prefer the DECmate-II for home (less noisy if nothing else :-)

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