A listmember and I met today, in a city in the middle of the USA, to
exchange some hardware. If you cctech-ers are wondering why you haven't got
list mail in several days, well, now you know the rest of the story. :-)
He got a Stardent deskside that I originally rescued from a Austin, Texas
auction block. He also got a complete Xerox 8010 of his that I had
transported and stored for him from elsewhere in the country.
I got a nearly-complete Symbolics 3650 system and a DEC Computer Lab. I've
always thought that LISP was an entertaining language, and that a LISP
machine would be equally entertaining (maybe bewildering). Now maybe I'll be
able to find out. Oh gods, that thing was heavy! But at least it came with a
very cool (albeit later-model) space cadet keyboard, like the one pictured
here:
http://www.abstractscience.freeserve.co.uk/symbolics/photos/IO/index.html
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Jeffrey Sharp
Received on Sun Oct 06 2002 - 20:13:00 BST