Classic DEC picture from "American Used Computer"

Lee Courtney lcourtney at mvista.com
Wed May 25 08:28:27 CDT 2005


The only portion of Illiac-IV is the PE, CE, and swapping drive that are on
display at the Museum. See
http://www.computerhistory.org/VisibleStorage/images/102636984_lg.jpg for a
picture of the system at NASA-Ames.

Lee Courtney

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> On Tue, 24 May 2005, William Donzelli wrote:
>
> > > 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).
> >
> > Are you sure you have the whole thing (well, all that was built,
> > anyway)? ILLIAC 4 was big. Really damn big. And they only ended up
> > building a fraction of its goal.
>
> Not sure.  Will have to ask someone who was around then or check off-site
> storage.
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