Not quite. This had nothing to do with the Univac 1219; I have no idea of when that was moved or by whom. I picked up the Burroughs L7000 processor and drive cabinet from a jewelry store in Delaware on 10/21/2009. I found the email exchange from 10/15/2009 between you, Sridhar, and I on 10/15/2009 in which we made all the plans. I didn't see any mention of your illness in that email exchange, but you were definitely not present for the pickup; I assume that part got coordinated in text messages or phone calls while I was on that (several days long) road trip from Florida to Boston and back. I found a picture in my archives (taken with my camera, according to the metadata) of the elderly woman who ran the jewelry store, posing with the L7000 CPU cabinet (which MARCH later scrapped) behind the building. She helped me get it out of the building and onto the truck; it was just her and I. Pic attached. -Dave On 5/26/23 07:42, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Sorry...clarify...I was ill when retrieving the 1219-II, but completed the switch to.deliver the truck to Evan and he drove from Wilmingron to InfoAge as planned.
The 7000 came from Newark, DE. I took the external conteoller card chassis to InfoAge. We could never move the console. No sickness involved, just brute force
Bill
On Fri, May 26, 2023, 6:32 AM Bill Degnan <billdegnan@gmail.com> wrote:
Univac 1219-II haul Bill
On Fri, May 26, 2023, 12:03 AM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, that's the one that I rescued, when you were deathly ill. I happened to be in town (from Florida at the time) in a truck when help was needed.
The front panel (which was beautiful BTW) could've been retrieved from the building with about three people. It's a huge shame that no one went back for it.
-Dave
On 5/25/23 23:46, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
This is what I rescued and donated to MARCH. There was never a B80, not sure what Al is talking about. He asked me too, I have docs but no hardware other than misc cards and parts. I don't believe the workstation itself was ever actually rescued it proved impossible to extract from the building. Not sure if it's still there, we ended up giving up (everyone went home and I could not move on my own!) https://vintagecomputer.net/burroughs/L7000/ Bill
On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 9:37 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 5/25/23 21:35, Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Does VCF at Infoage possess a Burroughs B80? Al Kossow from Bitsavers is asking.
There was one there at one time, mostly complete, in the "Evan Era". I don't know offhand what happened to it.
-Dave
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