We have Powell's Books in Portland. I rarely go to the big store but hang
out in the Technical book store. There is a shelf of 'old' computers.
There are only two I have not written software for, built, or rebuilt.
The memories are good ones but I realize the kids working the store were
not born when those computers were first considered obsolete. That is a
bit frightening. Then I started studying electronics in the mid 60s with
tube gear. Transistors, FETs, ICs, and then finally CPUs. It moves a bit
rapidly don't you think?
Kevin. KD5ONS
Oh, Tom will be on the net so we'll be able to relay you in from where
ever you may be on the West Coast.
KJR
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:55:19 -0700, Leigh L Klotz, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
The first use of Exploder I know was the TI Explorer Lisp Machine, which
was licensed from MIT in about 1981. People called them the "TI
Exploder." TI was the third licensee after Symbolics (the first .com
domain ever) and LMI, and they built variatoins of the MIT "CADR" Lisp
Machines.
There was an ARPA Net mailing list called [EMAIL PROTECTED] (back before
there were domains) and it was about the second dry-humor list, the
first being [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think I have some INFO-EXPLODER archives
around.
On the LispM front, I went to the computer museum in Mountain View CA
two years ago and saw computers that were familiar, PDP-10, Apple II's,
etc But when I saw CADR-6 there...I remember when it was built, and my
girlfriend put together the front end interface and the network
controiller. I decided that a musem with computers whose serial numbers
I recognized was not a healthy place for me, and left.
Leigh / WA5ZNU
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