New blog about WAITS (PDP-10 OS) at Stanford

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Rupert Lane is starting a blog series about WAITS and SAIL.

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photos from this post on mastodon

Upper right: Gareth Loy at an III display. Lower left: Jeff Rubin (standing) and Ralph Gorin (sitting) - two programmer wizards - at the KL10 console. Lower right: Les Earnest - pointing a FINGER, get it? - at a Data Disc display.
Upper right: Gareth Loy at an III display. Lower left: Jeff Rubin (standing) and Ralph Gorin (sitting) - two programmer wizards - at the KL10 console. Lower right: Les Earnest - pointing a FINGER, get it? - at a Data Disc display.1098×742 125 KB

See also previous topic Re-Enactment of the 1974 Time Sharing System at SAIL

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Re-Enactment of the 1974 Time Sharing System at SAIL
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I’ll be following that blog!

Linked within, a photo tour of SAIL in 1976

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Image#3 Signage

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Image #44 Tom Gafford appears, once only

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Image #60 TED positions vice

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Image #64 Blue Arm at vice

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Image #74 approaching dots

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Drug, crime, and community studies sounds like there’s a student dorm nearby.

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How about the home-movie film of the SAIL volleyball game:

? There are some more SAIL photos here, as well as a YouTube photo montage. Both of the videos are on Bruce Baumgart’s YT channel, by the way.

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I believe this rock video has footage from the SAIL facilities, at the beginning and the end.

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This is a video of the abandoned and rotting DC Power building where SAIL and CCRMA was housed. I feel it’s something out of a zombie movie, especially in combination with the music.

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