[Elecraft] Now that we know

[Kevin Rock]

We have Powell's Books in Portland.  I rarely go to the big store but hang 
out in the Technical book store.  There is a shelf of 'old' computers.  
There are only two I have not written software for, built, or rebuilt.  
The memories are good ones but I realize the kids working the store were 
not born when those computers were first considered obsolete.  That is a 
bit frightening.  Then I started studying electronics in the mid 60s with 
tube gear.  Transistors, FETs, ICs, and then finally CPUs.  It moves a bit 
rapidly don't you think?
    Kevin.   KD5ONS

Oh, Tom will be on the net so we'll be able to relay you in from where 
ever you may be on the West Coast.
    KJR




On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:55:19 -0700, Leigh L Klotz, Jr. <Leigh at WA5ZNU.org> 
wrote:

> 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




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