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Jnc: /* Interesting artifacts */ Yah, I saw that in the Midas article
2023-06-16T18:31:53Z
<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Interesting artifacts: </span> Yah, I saw that in the Midas article</span></p>
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Larsbrinkhoff: /* Interesting artifacts */ PDP-1 MIDAS memo.
2023-06-16T15:55:46Z
<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Interesting artifacts: </span> PDP-1 MIDAS memo.</span></p>
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Jnc: /* Interesting artifacts */ new section
2023-06-16T12:18:37Z
<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Interesting artifacts: </span> new section</span></p>
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Jnc: Great history!
2023-06-16T11:29:41Z
<p>Great history!</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>==History==<br />
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Great find, that history! In addition to all the detailed technical history, it says "in 1976 the TX-0 will be moved to the Computer Museum of the Digital Equipment Corporation". (I can understand why DEC wanted it; it was basically the prototype [[PDP-1]]!) So my immediate reaction was 'I wonder if the [[CHM]] got it'; I looked, and [https://www.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/2e1b209cb40237b91228cdf26a60e3f8/ apparently they did]. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 13:29, 16 June 2023 (CEST)</div>
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