Hi Kevin, Your academic career sounds very much like my own. Next time we meet, we can swap stories. Meanwhile well done for exposing this story. BTW, I have a shrewd suspicion that the PDP-8 at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry (or whatever it's called this week) is the PDP-8 which came to the Manchester University Department of Computer Science in 1966/7. One wonders if they were shipped from the USA together. It came with a sort of cabinet with blue doors about 5' up which was, or so I was told, the housing for disc drives. In Manchester's case it was the housing for tea making equipment.
Hi Kevin,
Your academic career sounds very much like my own. Next time we meet, we can swap stories. Meanwhile well done for exposing this story. BTW, I have a shrewd suspicion that the PDP-8 at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry (or whatever it's called this week) is the PDP-8 which came to the Manchester University Department of Computer Science in 1966/7. One wonders if they were shipped from the USA together. It came with a sort of cabinet with blue doors about 5' up which was, or so I was told, the housing for disc drives. In Manchester's case it was the housing for tea making equipment.
I worked with Kevin at Exexter GP systems in Brimingham. Kevin was a a genious