They found a tape of "Digitized Monkey Brains." I wonder if this is from the project that led to "always mount a scratch monkey." http://edp.org/monkey.htm
Almost certainly not. That used a VAX 11/780 since the earlier combination of PDP-11/05 and PDP-11/44 wasn't fast enough for the monkey experiments.
This NYC Resistor recovery involves a PDP-11/34 from storage the Bronx, so it wasn't fast enough and is in the wrong place. Also, you'll note that the image on flikr references the same aphorism.
More generally, a lot of people have digitized monkey brains in one sort or other. For example, I know someone in the early 1990s who worked on digitized slices of rhesus monkey brains, in order to re-register them to assemble a 3D model.
