[Elecraft] Now that we know

[Leigh L Klotz, Jr.]

The first use of Exploder I know was the TI Explorer Lisp Machine, which 
was licensed from MIT in about 1981.  People called them the "TI 
Exploder."  TI was the third licensee after Symbolics (the first .com 
domain ever) and LMI, and they built variatoins of the MIT "CADR" Lisp 
Machines.

There was an ARPA Net mailing list called INFO-EXPLORER at MC (back before 
there were domains) and it was about the second dry-humor list, the 
first being INFO-COBOL at MC.  I think I have some INFO-EXPLODER archives 
around.

On the LispM front, I went to the computer museum in Mountain View CA 
two years ago and saw computers that were familiar, PDP-10, Apple II's, 
etc  But when I saw CADR-6 there...I remember when it was built, and my 
girlfriend put together the front end interface and the network 
controiller.  I decided that a musem with computers whose serial numbers 
I recognized was not a healthy place for me, and left.

Leigh / WA5ZNU