I had a private conversation with Stephen(who started the nekochan thread) and he said that some things have gone back to donors and that they will keep some select items. The 8/s is one of the machines that they are keeping.
I get the imprwssion that it's a rather controlled an responsible shutdown. /P On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 12:27:59PM -0700, Brendan Shanks wrote: > Yep they started selling/giving away their collection few months ago: > http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?t=16729439 > > Brendan > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:58 AM, jwsmobile <j...@jwsss.com> wrote: > > > > > Does anyone have access to the museum that was at Austin Goodwill? It > > seems to be going out on ebay as we speak. Also there is a bidder for the > > good stuff that has vacuumed up 90% of the stuff, so I'm smelling some sort > > of thing going one. > > > > They have a PDP8/S and they just sold off a significant artifact related > > to that, which is what has me wondering. I'm going to call and see if > > anyone has a story that way, but wondered if anyone here has any info too. > > > > There are a lot of nice things going out which could have explanations as > > being recent donations, but not the 8/s artifact. It seems to be custom > > related to the 8/s. > > > > thanks > > Jim > > > >
