Museum Report 2017-07-19 July 19, 2017
Fred gave a super speedy tour to two ladies who seemed to have worked at Fort Monmouth. At least one of them had used a Wang word-processor before. There were two other groups totaling 7 people that came through with moderate interest. One guy stopped by with a picture of his father's company's Univac I from 1963. It was pretty cool. They used it for adding zip codes to mailing labels as well as stock market prediction. The name of his father's company was SysteMetrics - electronics division of Budd Company. He shared with me some photos that he had. The Univac I was bought used from Harvard University. Here are some pictures: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9SJLfGXYiG5alR6U3VZNXRkdVk -- ======================================================== Jeff Brace ========================================================
On Wed, 19 Jul 2017, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
One guy stopped by with a picture of his father's company's Univac I from 1963. It was pretty cool. They used it for adding zip codes to mailing labels as well as stock market prediction. The name of his father's company was SysteMetrics - electronics division of Budd Company. He shared with me some photos that he had. The Univac I was bought used from Harvard University.
Interesting. I have an indicator panel from some sort of radar processing unit from Budd Electronics: http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/Panels/#Budd Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
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