[NJARC] COmputer destroyed in fire

[John Ruccolo]

John,

> Mr. Kagan's Computer was one of hundreds made.  That
> isn't historic, just old.

What???!!! How many Burrooughs 205's have survived intact? Probably about as many as there are Hallicrafters S-1's. Most tube computers like B205's, SAGE, etc. had long careers as Hollywood movie and TV props, long after their operating days ended. They were cut up and scattered to the four winds. Once in a great while, a few pieces still turn up at hamfests.

Perhaps in 1969 or '79 a vacuum-tube computer was just so much old junk. Today, it's something much, much more.

If I had a Hallicrafters S-1, I'd keep it in a safe! ;-)

JR

--- On Wed, 12/9/09, John Dilks K2TQN <oldradio at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> From: John Dilks K2TQN <oldradio at worldnet.att.net>
> Subject: Re: [NJARC] COmputer destroyed in fire
> To: njarc at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 7:17 PM
> Just remember 
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> 
> Perhaps in your eyes.
> 
> I said rare, perhaps a bad choice of words, but it is a
> historic 
> artifact.  To preserve one of the very first radios
> made by a company 
> that went on to be just as historic as RCA would be a good
> 
> thing.  Ask any ham who collects.
> 
> Mr. Kagan's Computer was one of hundreds made.  That
> isn't historic, just old.
> 
> I wonder if the museum there had RCA's first radio? 
> If so, where is 
> it going?  How about INFOAGE?
> 
> John
> 
> At 06:37 PM 12/9/2009, you wrote:
> >John a Rare radio is not the same as a historic
> artifact!
> >
> >John T
> 
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