On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 12:22:50PM -0500, Jon Elson wrote:
> Any pictures of this?
I'll forward this email to my contact at Rice.
mcl
On 09/12/2015 12:58 AM, Randy Dawson wrote:
Yep, that was the place - I can't remember their name, I think they were the
Autocad rep, and carried a few complementary lines like plotters.
The R1 was laying down on some stands, like a coffee table, plexi cover so you
could set your drinks on it a
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 10:58:38PM -0700, Randy Dawson wrote:
> One of the Texas Microsystems founders (and a Rice alum) got possession
Both were Rice alums :-) Working for them on the other side of the
building was my summer job in college. They were ... characters.
Probably Mike donated it.
s and
construction.
One of the Texas Microsystems founders (and a Rice alum) got possession, and
after a few years gave it back to Rice.
Randy
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 20:09:48 -0500
> From: lini...@lonesome.com
> To: rdawso...@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: information about the Ben
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 09:38:00PM -0500, Jon Elson wrote:
> Supposedly one in Australia is at least close to operational.
The references to it are on one of the members.iinet.net.au sites.
Currently only reachable through the Wayback Machine (see one of
my other posts):
https://web.archive.org/w
On 09/11/2015 11:31 AM, Cory Heisterkamp wrote:
Are there any operational G-15's out there? Seems like this would be a good
model to restore/demonstrate that doesn't come with all the usual baggage
of a first gen machine (exotic power, A/C requirements, thousands of tubes,
etc). -C
Supposedly
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:24:47AM -0700, Randy Dawson wrote:
> There was a 'slice' of the R1 floating about with some friends of mine
> in Houston.
Were they the owners of a small office building off of Post Oak in Houston
in the 1970s-1980s?
That's the only one I know about that survived.
mcl
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 09:27:47AM -0700, Al Kossow wrote:
> A volunteer at CHM (Paul McJones) is scanning R1 documentation currently.
Yes, I've already been talking to Paul.
mcl
There was a 'slice' of the R1 floating about with some friends of mine in
Houston. It was about the size and shape of the 2001 monolith. From what I
was told, it represented one register, probably a byte, and constructed of
about 100 vacuum tubes. It served as a conversation piece and a coffe
Are there any operational G-15's out there? Seems like this would be a good
model to restore/demonstrate that doesn't come with all the usual baggage of a
first gen machine (exotic power, A/C requirements, thousands of tubes,
etc). -C
MARCH's is untested. We plan to restore it one day.
Are there any operational G-15's out there? Seems like this would be a good
model to restore/demonstrate that doesn't come with all the usual baggage
of a first gen machine (exotic power, A/C requirements, thousands of tubes,
etc). -C
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> On 9/11/
On 9/11/15 8:28 AM, Mark Linimon wrote:
I do have some R1 documentation which I intend to scan and then send
to either CHM or Rice University Fondren Library.
A volunteer at CHM (Paul McJones) is scanning R1 documentation currently.
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