Classic DEC picture from "American Used Computer"

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Paul Koning wrote:

> >>>>> "Vintage" == Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> writes:
>
>  Vintage> On Thu, 19 May 2005, William Donzelli wrote:
>  >> > Lot of what is rare stuff in that pic (like the RF08 on his
>  >> left..)
>  >>
>  >> By the way, the original plac ethat picture was used was an old
>  >> National Geographic. I recall the same page has a picture of one
>  >> of the piles as ILLIAC 4 was being scrapped.
>
>  Vintage> Are you talking about the November 1970 issue of National
>  Vintage> Geopgraphic?
>
> Can't be -- Illiac 4 was either not yet in existence, or alive and
> well -- certainly not scrapped.  I remember it was a running system
> while I was at the U of Illinois in the late 1970s -- occasionally
> visiting the building where it was supposed to have been installed.
> (It ended up on a military base instead, because DoD was paying for
> the machine and decided they didn't like to put it on a campus full of
> hippy protestors... but by then the building had already been
> constructed.)

Right.  It ended up at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California, which
is how the Computer History Museum got it as part of its collection (and
it now sits on display in the Visible Storage area).

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