> How convenient! Someone recently offered to donate a working
> lineprocessor to the project. Would you be willing to donate the
> DM2500? One of my pet ideas is to bring up a complete hardware (01)
Sure, that would be the best possible home for it! (02)
What's the procedure? (03)
BTW I also have a set of schematics for the lineprocessor -- was going
to bring them to CHM a couple years ago (exchanged a couple of notes
with a fellow named Chris Garcia) but I apparently neglected to get
back to him -- probably got snowed under. (04)
I also recall that at the time, CHM didn't have a high quality wide
format scanner of their own, so it would have taken special
arrangements to digitize the information. Has the situation improved? (05)
> system including a working Dec10/20. CHM has one (a Japanese clone),
> but it would be fun to see if someone has one that we could dedicate
> to this project. Any ideas on where to look? (06)
You mean a real DEC-20? Yes, the same one that SRI-NIC (and then
Engelbart's Bootstrap Institute) used was given to Bruce Kennard
across the bay. Checking my old email, around April 1999 I introduced
him to Dag Spicer at CHM with the intent that this DEC-20 would become
part of the museum's working collection. The last I heard, Bruce said
"fine, come get it"... after that, I don't know what happened. The
email addrs for them at the time were <kennard@insyde.com> and
<spicer@computerhistory.org>. Hopefully this is enough info that you
can follow up... and let me know what you find out, thanks! (07)
--Ken (08)
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