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From: leech@Apple.COM (Jonathan Patrick Leech)
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In article <24933@tau.mips.COM> wilkes@mips.COM (John Wilkes) writes:
>Yes, that is the correct spelling.  I believe that Foonly is no longer in
>business, except perhaps for maintenance of one or two machines.  I think
>the world's fastest PDP-10, the Foonly F-1, is still in service somewhere
>in southern California.  Supposedly, it was being used to do animation and
>graphics.  (Remember the TRON instruction?  Remember the movie?  Perhaps
>apocryphal, but the story is that the F-1 was used to make the movie.)

    Correct.  III had it in their Culver City site for many years and
used it to generate (part of) TRON. In 1984, Omnibus bought the
Foonly and the rest of III's graphics operation.  After several
frustrating months, it was installed in the former Glen Glenn sound
studios at Paramount, where Omnibus located their LA office.  I don't
know what became of the Foonly when the Omnibus empire collapsed, as I
was no longer working for them at that point.
--
    Jon Leech (leech@apple.com)
    Apple Integrated Systems
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