On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 12:19, Fred Cisin wrote:
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> Meanwhile, on the other end of the campus, the electronics
> department also had a PDP-11, but the electronics department
> was soon being closed down because the administration believed
> that "NOBODY ever repairs anything anymore". The administration
> dumpstered the computer! One of the teachers salvaged it from
> the dumpster(s) in violation of school rules and policies. But he
> was having major problems of his own (divorce, moving, lack of storage
> space, lack of money to rent space,...) so he stuck the stuff into his
> back yard, intending to do something with it "right away", ... and the
> computer stuff stayed in his back yard until what was left of it was
> rescued a few months ago.
Was it really a few months ago? :-) My how time flies!
But it's good to know where it all came from and a bit of history behind
it.
Thanks.
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TTFN - Guy
Received on Wed Jun 16 2004 - 18:24:28 BST