IP: Re::UNIVAC turns 50

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:40:41 -0400
> To: dave () farber net
> From: NC Hanger / Windhaven <nhanger () windhaven com>
> Subject: Re: IP: UNIVAC turns 50
>
> Dave,
>
> Great posting.
>
> This is personal history for me -- my godfather was Press Eckart, 
> coinventor of the ENIAC, and my stepfather one of the early VPs of 
> Remington-Rand (Sperry-Rand, Sperry-Univac, and finally Univac), until his 
> death in 1985.
>
> I'm sitting here in my office typing on a Pentium III 1Gig machine, with a 
> vacuum tube from that first US Census Univac mounted on a wooden block 
> atop a pile of papers beside me. I wish they were still alive to see where 
> computers are today.
>
> A small B&W photo hangs on the wall beside my desk of my stepfather 
> (Phillip S. Vincent) with Douglas McArthur standing in front of one of the 
> Univac arrays. (I have several lead sets of miniatures of the Census array 
> in boxes. I had a strange upbringing -- I didn't get doll houses, I got 
> minatures of computer mainframe setups.) I have more Univac "stuff" than I 
> think Unisys still has in their warehouse: mugs, Cross pen sets, chips, 
> tubes, miniatures, circuit boards, and let's not forget the stationery and 
> other emphemera. When I die, my inheritors will be overwhelmed (by then, 
> I'm sure it will no longer be "history," but be "junk," and it'll all be 
> thrown out!).
>
> Just had to tell someone. It's my family's birthday today. :-)
>
> --Nancy
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Nancy C. Hanger
> contributing editor & columnist, BYTE.com
>      ("Mobile & Web") - http://www.byte.com
> nhanger () windhaven com | 603-483-0929 (8022 - fax)
> 68 Hunting Road, Auburn, NH 03032
>
>
> At 12:22 PM 6/14/01, you wrote:
>
>
> > > Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:53:21 -0700
> > > To: farber () cis upenn edu
> > > From: Bob Hinden <hinden () iprg nokia com>
> > > Subject: Fwd: UNIVAC turns 50
> > >
> > >
> > > > > Subject:      UNIVAC turns 50
> > > > >
> > > > > ** The Univac Turns 50
>
> <snip>



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