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Re: Apple II sighting in Wired article



John B. Matthews wrote:
In article <slrngfrm6u.27cj.jim@wotan.magrathea.local>,
 Jim <jim@magrathea.plus.com> wrote:

On 2008-10-21, David Wilson <mcs6502@gmail.com> wrote:
Is that what I think it is to the right of the Enigma machine?

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage=6
Tha caption under the pictures says it's an Apple II mobo signed by Woz.

Nearby, there's a panel with eight vacuum tubes. Mmm, plasma.

That's a module from an IBM 709-class machine.  It could be
one bit of a register, with gating.

-michael

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