We have two G15’s at CHM, one currently on exhibit and one in the warehouse. Lovely machine. Very huggable. Marc
> On Feb 15, 2025, at 6:48 PM, Van Snyder via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Sun, 2025-02-16 at 02:18 +0000, David Wise via cctalk wrote: >> Usagi Electric on youtube has restored a G15 if I understand >> correctly. Including a project to re-coat a crashed drum. > > Harry Husky, the G15 designer, was one of the computer design pioneers. > He became a professor (maybe adjunct) at UC Berkeley. When he retired > from Bendix they gave him a G15 that he kept at home. It was, AFAIK, > the first "home computer," even before Honeywell's. I wonder if Husky's > G15 still works? Maybe it's the one at CHM, which appears to be no > longer on display — probably sitting in a warehouse. >
