Re: Fire damages -> Help needed

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_floodgap.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 06:26:10 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <200912071426.nB7EQA6P013328@floodgap.com>
> > > There has also been another vintage computer-related fire of a
> > > French-born historical figure.  Claude A.R. Kagan - he's OK and in good
> > > spirits, but lost was his historically irreplaceable Burroughs 205
> > > mainframe and some other similarly old things.
> >
> > I was brokenhearted when I read about that on cctalk. A working B205 is a
> > very rare thing.
>
> I was not working, it was akin to a 1960 Chevy left in a barn for 45 
> years.  The plan was to ship it to the Computer History Museum in Palo 
> Alto some time soon, but the actual process had not begun.

I thought that it was partially operational, though. "They" said something
about Kagan even being able to power it up ("the only three-phase power in
the county"), implying some sort of function.

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