Thanks to everyone who played last month’s Name that Ware. There’s a certain satisfying sense of closure in discovering the origin of an old ware you’ve had in your closet for a long time. It’s even neater to know that I had something as classic as a board from a PDP-11 hanging above my desk when I was a kid, even if I didn’t know it at the time.
It’s a hard choice to pick one winner, so I’m going to pick two: Nicholas and Phil, congratulations! email me to claim your prize. The link to the bitsavers page in particular is really neat; I’m bookmarking that one. I’m glad that someone is going around collecting all the schematics and code that ran on these classic machines, and I’m even more glad that I haven’t heard of any lawsuits from copyright holders trying to milk the last dime out of some dead documents. I guess the sad part is that I don’t really see a bitsavers happening for any of today’s machines or chips. I wonder if in twenty years we’ll look back at these funny old Pentium chips and simply shrug our shoulders and go, oh well.