It is sort of weird how the most prolific stuff a generation later is all but gone. I guess compared to automobiles, minicomputers and workstations are pretty rare things to start with.

Although the loss of IP doesn't surprise me, I've been to too many places that have nothing surviving from their original products, even if they still sell support. -If a company like Sega can lose all their art assets and source code, anyone can.

On April 8, 2017 6:57:13 PM GMT+08:00, Tim Bradshaw <tfb@tfeb.org> wrote:
On 8 Apr 2017, at 00:31, Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
 
 Presumably we gave the evaluation 2/120 back to Sun and bought the one
 mentioned by Tim (it was called "islay" unless I have become confused)
 a bit later, in 1985.


Gail says it was.  She thinks Islay *was* the evaluation machine, which was bought after it was evaluated (but she also says you'd know better).  I also remember (from reading the report?  It was all long before I was there of course) that an HLH Orion was evaluated, although this may be wrong.

That machine (islay) was, much later, given to Sun at Linlithgow as an artifact, but it is presumably gone now.

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