I had Symbolics for personal use. But it was just a grey box running Maclisp of sort. Never understood the actual purpose, except Amerikka novelty -- for Russi

I had Symbolics for personal use. But it was just a grey box running Maclisp of sort. Never understood the actual purpose, except Amerikka novelty -- for Russian visitors in Helsinki, I think Lisp in big VAX was faster or at least more convenient?