Need help

From: Chad Fernandez <fernande_at_internet1.net>
Date: Thu May 24 00:07:45 2001

Thats good Chuck :-)

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA

Chuck McManis wrote:
>
> Deer Sir;
>
> I have just been given three ENIAC machines to display in a museum but they
> are currently in Nigeria where they were used for nuclear weapons testing.
> I can get them and preserve them for the National Museum of Science but I
> need your help. They won't believe I am a serious collector unless I can
> show them that I own a working PDP-1. I need you to box up and ship me a
> working PDP-1 so that I can set it up and show it to them. Then they will
> send me the three ENIACs by first class air mail. I will keep one, send one
> to the museum and you can keep one. You will agree that an ENIAC, the first
> digital computer, is much more valuable than a PDP-1 so you will understand
> that I must keep the PDP-1 just in case they do a "surprise" inspection.
> Thank you for your help, it is a good cause.
>
> Sincerely,
> Prof. Peabody.
>
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>
> :-)
Received on Thu May 24 2001 - 00:07:45 BST