Last (or next to last) Multics System to be Decommissioned

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Fri Oct 20 17:23:53 2000

On October 20, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
> > And someone is going to acquire this hardware for posterity I assume??
>
> Doubtful... this was a military machine, and although it didn't handle
> classified data, they didn't grant accounts to outsiders, which even
> the NSA did with the DOCKMASTER system until it was decomissioned in
> 1998.
>
> But maybe if someone with deep enough pockets and good Canadian
> connections tries, who knows what might be possible...

  It seems a huge shame to let a machine like this get scrapped.
Surely *someone* can save it?

     -Dave McGuire
Received on Fri Oct 20 2000 - 17:23:53 BST