New Acquisition

From: Jay West <jwest_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Mon Oct 7 07:24:01 2002

You were in the middle of the USA and didn't stop by here? I'm hurt Jeff! :)

Jay West
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Sharp" <jss_at_subatomix.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 8:11 PM
Subject: New Acquisition


> 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
>
> --
> Jeffrey Sharp
>
>

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