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by gumby 1523 days ago
SAIL was the Stanford AI Lab. Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy founded the MIT AI lab; John was recruited by Stanford and started a lab there. It was in the lovely DC Powers building in the foothills -- despite what you would think "DC Powers" was actually someone's name!

It also had a PDP-10 and a TV system but of course it's own implementation of both the TV hardware and the PDP-10 O/S (WAITS)

I can't find a picture of the building unfortunately -- it was really cool.

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Are these some pictures You were looking for?

http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/AIlab/

Search the directory for DCPowers.

I wasn't looking for a specific photo, but yes, those are a good find