Hi Everyone!
The largest single remaining collection of historical DEC equipment in the
world arrives at the History Center in three 51 foot tractor trailers this
coming Tuesday, December 14 and Thursday, December 16th. Thanks to Compaq
Corporation, this tremendous "family tree" of DEC equipment will be
preserved for future generations to enjoy, study from, and marvel at.
Thanks to Compaq also for underwriting the shipping of this unique
collection to the History Center in Mountain View where it will form part
of the Center's permanent collection. Highlights from the donation include:
VAX 11/750
VAX 11/780
VAX 11/780 Eastern block clone
VAX 11/730
VAX 8300
VAX 9000
LINC 8
PDP-1
PDP-4
PDP-5
PDP-6
PDP-7
PDP-8A/E/L/M
PDP-9
PDP-9L
PDP-10 (KA)
PDP-11/23
PDP-11/40
PDP-11/60
PDP-12
PDP-15
VT52
VT320
VT100
VT100 AA GIGI
Hundreds more items including tape drives, disk drives, manuals, line
printers, sfotware, museum displays, &c.
These items will form the backbone of a new exhibit, scheduled to open to
the public in January, 2000, on DEC's many pioneering contributions to
computing. I will post images of the unloading for everyone within the
next few days at the following URL:
http://www.computerhistory.org/events/latest/
In the meantime, if you have any questions about the donation or about the
History Center generally, please feel free to drop me a line.
Best wishes,
Dag.
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Dag Spicer
Curator & Manager of Historical Collections
Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
The Computer Museum History Center
Building T12-A
NASA Ames Research Center
Mountain View, CA 94035
Offices: Building T12-A
Exhibit Area: Building 126
Tel: +1 650 604 2578
Fax: +1 650 604 2594
E-m: spicer_at_computerhistory.org
WWW: http://www.computerhistory.org
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Received on Thu Dec 09 1999 - 17:14:15 GMT