[NJARC] Computer Destroyed in Fire

[John Ruccolo]

The Burroughs 205 should have been in the Smithsonian, or some other museum. That's a damn shame -- I don't mean to be critical, but Mr. Kagan should have realized the historic value of his equipment and found it a *proper* home years ago. 

--- On Sun, 12/6/09, Ray Chase <raydio862 at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: Ray Chase <raydio862 at verizon.net>
> Subject: [NJARC] Computer Destroyed in Fire
> To: "NJARC" <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 9:23 PM
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> Not tryly radio related but a warning about preserving and
> insuring your collectables.  reported by Will
> Donzelli.
> Ray
> 
> Claude Kagan's famous barn in Pennington, NJ burned to the
> ground a
> couple of days ago. Mr. Kagan was a Western Electric
> veteran, and was
> a true old timer in the computer industry. His barn housed
> his
> collection of interesting bits and pieces of technology.
> Arguably the
> main attraction was his Burroughs B205 computer - one of
> the last
> vacuum tube machines still out in the wild. While it was in
> fair
> shape, Mr. Kagan was making plans to rescue it from the old
> barn. His
> B205, a complete system, was completely tubed up - several
> thousand
> tubes, plus about as many spares.
> 
> Mr. Kagan was completely unharmed, and continues to live in
> his fireproof house.
> 
> --
> Will
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