Washington DC classic computing resources/museums?

From: Ethan Dicks <dickset_at_amanda.spole.gov>
Date: Tue Jun 1 17:17:53 2004

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 02:26:42PM -0400, Jason McBrien wrote:
> Basement of the Smithsonian American History Museum. AWESOME collection of
> computing devices... the first PDP/11-based fingerprint scanner for the FBI...

If it's the large machine in the corner, off the main path (just past the
Straight-8), that should be a PDP-15. It's definitely not 16-bits.

-ethan

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