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- Lawrence Krakauer has a few pictures of PDP-6 boards, and the Fabritek memory:
http://google.com/search?q=site%3Aljkrakauer.com+%22pdp-6%22&tbm=isch - I found this from around 1993, but I see no blue boxes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp9NHNKTV-M - This video offers a glimpse. Is that Greenblat playing chess at 7:40?
And around 8 minutes there are some handsome boxes, not no console?
And a glimpse of the Fabritek memory. https://www.csail.mit.edu/videoarchive/history/aifilms/mathlab-81
Looks like mathlab had their software running on the AI PDP-6 at the time. Here's another video about project MAC showing the PDP-6 in all its beauty (mirrored for some reason): https://www.csail.mit.edu/videoarchive/history/aifilms/mac-104 EDIT: Not mirrored here: https://www.csail.mit.edu/videoarchive/history/aifilms/mac-45 EDIT: The person at 3:40 here looks like Greenblatt: https://www.csail.mit.edu/videoarchive/history/aifilms/robot-02 Kotok at 5:00 with someone I don't know next to him. EDIT: Assembler code on a PDP-6: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/video/history/aifilms/43-arm.mp4 EDIT: https://www.csail.mit.edu/videoarchive/history/aifilms/worm-55
These AI films are a great find!
There are two pictures of the SAIL machines. The KL10 is in the foreground, and I think I see a KA10 in the background of the second picture.
EDIT: A third picture, the KA10.
Even if not ITS, here's another photo of Stanford's KA: http://media.csail.mit.edu/picture.php?/3642/category/173
@simhacker, you wrote:
The console of MIT-MC, on the 9th floor Tech Square, with a can of coke. http://www.catalog.com/hopkins/images/mc-console.jpg
Do you still have that picture?
This well may be the only picture of an ITS machine. Please prove me wrong.
Here’s where it is now:
http://donhopkins.com/home/catalog/images/mc-console.jpg http://donhopkins.com/home/catalog/images/mc-console.jpg
Also:
The expression on Richard's face is saying, "I don't know, why do you wrap gerbils in duct tape?" http://donhopkins.com/home/catalog/images/jsol-rms-gerbil-liz-mg.jpg http://donhopkins.com/home/catalog/images/jsol-rms-gerbil-liz-mg.jpg
-Don
On 30 Jan 2017, at 03:23, Lars Brinkhoff [email protected] wrote:
This well may be the only picture of an ITS machine. Please prove me wrong.
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Can't read the screen, even after blowing up as large as I could get.
Yes, more resolution please! :)
I have asked if it's available in higher resolution. Here's the invoice. Lists of serial numbers online says # 175 was in Finland. I suppose it's possible that it was shipped to Stockholm.
EDIT:
Confirmed, Thord Nilsson says it came from Finland:
https://www.tekniskamuseet.se/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/115-thord-nilsson.pdf
MC?
-- Eric
On Feb 13, 2017, at 22:49, Lars Brinkhoff [email protected] wrote:
Unknown KL at Tech Square:
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Yeah, it doesn't look like the 9th floor at tech square. Besides MC, did MIT have any other KLs?
Noel Chiappa is my go-to guy for these kind of questions, and he saw right away that it wasn't MC. And he said there were no other DEC-10 KLs at the 9th floor, only DEC-20s.
That's unfortunate. Maybe I'll drop them an email. Or you do it, I probably won't have time today.
From CSAIL webmaster:
We are in the process of building a new video archive interface, but in the meantime, you can access the videos from the backup copy of our old server: http://akron.csail.mit.edu/research/videoarchive
EDIT: They moved again. They are now available from https://archive.org/details/AIfilms EDIT: Or https://www.csail.mit.edu/csail_videoarchive
I had definitely heard of the KL-udge addition and I do recall some lights because there was a hack that allowed some pattern to be discerned from the lights. But my memory is playing tricks with me because I’m think the lights were on the bank of hardware to the right of the operator console in that picture of MC. While the 11 was to the left, as can be seen in the picture, there was much more to be seen to the right. Basically big plain cabinets — but I think MC had lights there.
Lots of PDP-6 exposure in the Chess section:
http://projects.csail.mit.edu/video/history/aifilms/04-cubechess.mp4
Yes. That’s the right orientation for MC’s LA36 (I think it was) and the 11. And Prof Moses would have used MC.
That is a LA36, I tore enough of these appear in college to remember them. Looks like they took off the clear plastic cover over the print area.
Jeff Harris, unknown, and Licklider by an MIT PDP-10 console. But which one?
MIT-AI (KS10) at LCM (the one on the right, next to the TOAD): http://aap.papnet.eu/pub/img/lcm/vcf_lcm_exhibit/small/P1060410.JPG http://aap.papnet.eu/pub/img/lcm/vcf_lcm_exhibit/small/IMG_20180214_155147715.jpg its unibus cage: http://aap.papnet.eu/pub/img/lcm/vcf_lcm_exhibit/small/IMG_20180214_155245396.jpg and its chaosnet board: http://aap.papnet.eu/pub/img/lcm/vcf_lcm_exhibit/small/IMG_20180214_155343491.jpg http://aap.papnet.eu/pub/img/lcm/vcf_lcm_exhibit/small/IMG_20180214_155404068.jpg (remove "small" in URL for higher res photos)