On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 Innfogra_at_aol.com wrote:
> In the lobby of the building was Gene Amdahl's first computer, not for
> sale. It was very interesting. I wonder where it is now? It was
> destined to be saved.
That would be the WISC. He built that computer while as part of his
Physics graduate studies thesis. That machine is on display at the
Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. I saw it just
a month ago.
The front of it has a number of rather large bullet holes through it.
The story is that, apparently, his son used it as part of a make-shift
target range in the basement of their home, where it was being stored
for a number of years.
Some details and a photo can be found here:
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http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/wisc.html>
-brian.
Received on Sun Feb 02 2003 - 20:11:00 GMT