Need help

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Thu May 24 04:47:59 2001

Okay Chuck, whatever you say...

Sherman

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Chuck McManis
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 10:07 PM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Need help
>
>
> 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 - 04:47:59 BST