https://abitoutofplace.wordpress.com/ On 7/7/2021 3:11 PM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 1:04 PM Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Doug Crawford and his Univac Core stack:
I'm not finding anything thing relevant on web searches, internet archive, or any recent sales on ebay. Any recommendations on where else to look?
Doug, here's my recommendation, and it's posted in public for purpose.
I suggest you photograph and describe whatever core thingy you have, as best you can; and either create a Web page about it or find someone to create a Web page for you (but creating a page isn't too awful). Then host it on a vintage computing relevant Web site. And, please, update it as you find more information.
I myself run a Web domain for vintage computing with traditional Web pages. So I eat what I recommend. But Univac is too old and the wrong brand for my site, sorry. I imagine there's other Web sites where Univac content exists; maybe, core-memory content. Ask at those sites.
I know Doug already knows this, but to anyone who does not...As owner of vintagecomputer.net, I second Herb's view on how to solicit solutions to obscure problems. Posting a page of your own will attract random searches and responses. I get contacted daily about old articles and photos I posted on my site even 15 years ago. People supply info and suggestions, questions, stories, etc. I have learned a lot by simply starting a lot of little snowballs and letting them roll. I try to faithfully update the articles with these updates and let the persons who provided them know / give credit.
One can also post onto the old vintage-computer.com/vcforum if you don't want to make or have a web site but you never know when the hatchet will fall and the site disappears. Just happened to cbm-hackers. Remember our old Yahoo forum? Agreed that social media posts are only good for immediate response and results, some solutions take more time than Twitter and Facebook allow.
The web in one form or another *will* be here after we're all gone, individual sites hopefully will be archived, but it's a race against time in this hobby. The people who actually worked with this core board and remember it are probably few.
Suggestion - Check Datamation magazine from the early 70's...you may find a review on the board in there.
BIll