Space War!...and the PDP1 coming to the IFarchive soon

see:

unfortunately, they don't give the year when the computer museum took posession of it (appears to be around 1977)

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their very own computers. When I saw a note in the paper that Bob Everett was presenting the However, they weren't interested. A little bit later, I saw a short paragraph in a DECUS newsletter that DEC was starting a museum. And we said that was the way to go. Stan Schultz came down and we started to plan the move. We were about to move the machine on April 19th (a holiday), when the contract officer at MIT said, "Hey you can't give away this $3 million to a private individual." Everything came to a halt for two years. First it had to be offered to all military groups, then to all groups with government contracts, then various universities, then secondary schools, and finally to general services who could advertise it. On the first go-around DEC was outbid $2500 by an outfit in St. Louis that wanted the I-O. Then it was re-advertised. This time DEC was outbid $50 by a surplus dealer in Ohio. Roy Gould got busy on the phone and noted that it would cost a lot more than the price of $350 to move the machine. DEC gave them an extra $100 and took breastle to the machine.

Stan Schultz: John Connally and I spent many hours labelling all the wires.

John McKenzie: The dismantling took about a week, and then unfortunately it went into a warehouse for about two years.

Stan Schultz: Initially we set up the processor and console, and it was on exhibit from the summer of 1979 until 1981.