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The following 82 images are the Stanford subset from 190 images recently found, April 2019, at Hewlett Packard Company in the debris field left by the Digital Equipment Corporation. The analog black-and-white film negatives were donated by HP to the Computer History Museum, CHM. CHM assigned catalog number 10276500 to the lot, and ascession numbered the digitized TIFF files from 1 to 190, and converted the TIFF to smaller JPG files for convenient web display. This CHM web page is titled PDP-10 testing, and it presents a pleasantly mixed up, uncaptioned, combination of the 82 Stanford University images with 108 images from UC Berkeley and from Costa Mesa High School. The Visitor drives down a road lined with eucalyptus trees, to arrive at the Donald Clinton Power Laboratory, 1600 Arastradero, Palo Alto, California. Home of SAIL, the first Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The Visitor walks up the wide steps to the front door of the unusally shaped semi circular wooden buildin

SAIL-1976 --> --> --> Visitor to SAIL on Wednesday 21 April 1976. A photographer, working for the Digital Equipment Corporation, visits Stanford to photograph the recently delivered KL-10 computer. Gerald Ford is president. Consumer GPS and cell phones do not exist. The internet node count is about one hundred. The personal home computer population may be a couple thousand. The following 82 images are the Stanford subset from 190 images recently found, April 2019, at Hewlett Packard Company in the debris field left by the Digital Equipment Corporation. The analog black-and-white film negatives

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