On Sat, 20 May 2000, Lawrence LeMay wrote:
> > History's Lost and Found on the History Channel has a segment on the first
> > apple tonight. I haven't seen it yet. It is on now, 8-9PM PDT and repeated at
> > Midnight to 1:00am. As of 8:21 the segment has not aired.
> > Paxton
>
> I videotaped it, at SLP speed unfortunately. I say unfortunately, since
> I noticed for a very brief instant while they were panning across Liza
> Loop's basement, a PDP 8 or 11.
It's a PDP-8 that I believe was donated to them by the People's Computer
Company (I think it may have come from Lee Felsenstein).
> Just thought I'd mention it, perhaps someone should volunteer to
> take that machine off their hands, its certainly not being used in the
> basement, with boxes of junk stacked on it, and sitting next to baskets
> of old clothes. There is also a 'mystery box' that looks like it
Well, neither are all the machines we collectors have stacked in our
basements, doing pretty much nothing. In other words, she's a collector
(of sorts) too.
> should be DEC equipment as well, it is the same size as the 8/L, appears
> to have a solid black front with a ACE switch in the lower left, has
> the same milky white metal frame around the front panel, and there
> is a large piece of old paper covering most of the rest of the front...
> Expansion box for the 8/L perhaps?
It's been over a year since I was in there so I can't recall what this
was.
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