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On Sat, 06 Oct 2001 19:48:05 -0400 Mary Grace wrote: > If you are saying that you would like to contribute a specimen, especially > a particularly collectible early 1997 version with BSDlite 4.4 source prior > to the fixes for transparency of ecommerce traffic, please write me as > [email protected] and our non-profit will be glad to respond! > > We even have an original mid-70s Imsai/Altair 8800, as well as a PDP8a with > paper punch tape circa 1967, and even one of the first personal computers, > a circa 1970 TI with 16 mini toggle switches for clocking in programs and a > whopping 500bytes of memory. In addition to the standard pre-LED grain of > wheat bulbs output panel, it had an option for a Hollerith card reader > input. Not many people then who had any preference at all about getting a > life were punching out decks of cards for personal use. Good old Dancing > Man Jim Treybig gave us a circa 1984 Tandem NonStop, to go with our "Joe > Boyd" Harris 1000 with VOS from the same failed Tandem satellite program > "Infosat" that Tandem and Harris partnered on in 1985 in Santa Clara. > > Your cache router was one of the first in its field, too. The history of > the internet is indeed richer fot it. Mary; If this is for a reputable museum with a demonstrable commitment to preserving internet history and making it available to scholars and the public, I might be able to get you some real Internet historical items. We are talking some of the first routers to run IPv4 circa 1980, 1822 Interfaces, etc. regards, fletcher
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