[vcf-midatlantic] Sperry Univac Core - Moving off topic... perhaps the last word on this.
Jeffrey Brace
jeffrey at vcfed.org
Wed Jul 14 04:49:17 UTC 2021
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 6:37 PM Bob Flanders via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> [image: Screen Shot 2021-07-12 at 6.35.12 PM.png]
>
Bob, images are eaten by Mailman. So I recommend sending a link to the
image on this mailing list.
>
> This is the image I tried to send...
>
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 5:54 PM Bob Flanders <bob.flanders at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Doug,
> >
> > I saw "AN/UYK-20". In the early '70s, I was a night-shift operator for an
> > AN/UYK-7. I also did some system testing on the thing.
> >
> > Very cool and hard to come by information. This is similar to the console
> > for the Mk 81 torp FCS.
> >
> > [image: image.png]
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 4:54 PM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <
> > vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On 7/12/2021 12:22 PM, Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> >> >> Douglas Crawford Sat Jul 10 02:49:34 UTC 2021
> >> >> So, right. Here's the whole post mortem on this.
> >> >
> >> >> That's a recap of the entire successful conversation.
> >> >> Links to the board pics, and the UNIVAC manuals
> >> >> and such are in the conversation.
> >> >> Hence, "I'm good".
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks!
> >> >
> >> > It seems polite to respond to your detailed response to my "where's
> the
> >> > core" message.
> >> >
> >> > Your responses were informative, thank you. As you responded, your Web
> >> > pages on WordPress are for other purposes than for showing items for
> >> > further discussion or to solicit inquiries. Your response explains
> >> > itself and needs no elaborations on my part.
> >> >
> >> Thanks Herb. I feel I said one thing in haste and in retrospect I think
> >> it comes across badly- that the AN-UYK-20 is not interest.
> >> Not my complete thought. I was thinking not interesting enough -to me-.
> >> Most (if not all) vintage computers are interesting to someone and
> >> have aspects, which brought to light, probably would enlighten interest
> in
> >> many. Like many in the hobby I got spread way to thin for the amount of
> >> time I could put into the many great pieces I acquired in the last 10
> >> years
> >> so I made a call to not go deep into the AN-UYK_20 lineage of military
> >> computers.
> >> I would love to know more about our own Univac in the museum and can't
> >> even
> >> do that. I hope that my plans with the core board doesn't disappoint to
> >> many
> >> too much. I recently, as posted on here, got a few pieces of a MODCOMP
> >> Classic, and since that is a real oddity from my point of view, I might
> >> find
> >> time to go into emulation with the fine example of the front panel I now
> >> have.
> >>
> >> > Otherwise: you posted in this list to get some info: you got some info
> >> > and assistance: job done. But at some point you literally posted "Any
> >> > recommendations on where else to look?" and that is what I responded
> >> to.
> >> > If I posted after your request was satisfied, that was simply a
> >> > circumstance. My post also explained itself and needs no elaboration.
> >> >
> >> Thank you it was a reasonable suggestion, of course! You expanded on my
> >> request "where to look" with "what else I can do to get answers".
> >> No problem. Duane's response remained on the "where to look" aspect
> which
> >> when, for instance, he showed me the availability of the parts on a
> >> military
> >> web site, I learned - DUH!- look for military computer parts at the
> >> military
> >> suppliers! They just don't come up on web searches so I didn't find
> them.
> >>
> >> > You and I, simply put content on the Web in different ways for
> >> different
> >> > purposes. I'll be thoughtful about your use, you suggested you'll be
> >> > thoughtful about my suggested use. Those are considerations outside
> the
> >> > immediate topic which you have already concluded.
> >> >
> >> > Doug, you asked me if I liked your site, if I would read a few of your
> >> > pages on WordPress. Well, I did. They are good presentations about how
> >> > you've designed various microprocessor-based projects, small and
> large.
> >> > There's a general display of your vintage collection. These are all
> >> > well-crafted pages with visual and textual content. WordPress sites
> >> have
> >> > a commonality to them that makes them hard for me to compare to other
> >> > Web sites.
> >> >
> >> > The "adventures in ROV" page, is a pretty detailed presentation of the
> >> > methodology of students and mentors to create a toy-class small ROV
> >> from
> >> > Arduino technology and various toy-class parts. I only say "toy"
> >> because
> >> > you've also done commercial class development work. As an engineer
> >> > myself, I'm informed by your presentations of design process.
> >> >
> >> > Doug, you are welcome to wander around my Web domain
> >> > retrotechnology.com, for any information and considerations of use or
> >> > result you can glean from them.
> >> >
> >> Oh so coy, Herb! :-) Your site is world class and I have been there for
> >> many of the subjects you concentrate on, and when you concentrate, you
> >> research to the nth degree and that's why it serves as the reference for
> >> many
> >> for CP/M, S-100, 1802, to name a few.
> >>
> >> I think your site and Bill Deg get the kind of responses because the
> tone
> >> of the sites are research and documentation of artifacts in a way that
> >> draws
> >> out responses that contribute along those lines. Which is great.
> >>
> >> I put some of these pages up when I was job hunting and trying to show a
> >> certain
> >> high level of "functioning". It didn't really help that job effort, but
> >> I'm glad I put them up just the same, because its easy to forget a lot
> >> of the
> >> juicy details of what you had to overcome along the way.
> >> It all adds up when you lay them out end to end that's cool to look back
> >> on.
> >>
> >> You are correct the ROV was toy class. At the end of the project, I
> >> applied
> >> for an opening at hired at VideoRAY, a ROV company right in my own town,
> >> but nope. No deal.
> >> The HR person hinted they could not afford me, and alas, no offer was
> >> given.
> >> That was the last place I applied, and probably the last I will attempt.
> >>
> >> Thanks for looking the pages over & the kind words.
> >>
> >> > There's an open question from Doug, about whether Web search "finds"
> >> the
> >> > discussions here in this email list. I don't know, I search a lot and
> >> > don't recall "finds" from this list. But technical content in this
> >> > somewhat-private email list is limited. So I speculate there aren't
> >> > often enough keyboards to trigger a high-value "search hit". It's also
> >> > possible, that the hosting site "tells" search engines not to search
> >> the
> >> > email archives. Those are administrative matters I have no knowledge
> >> > about. But as Doug suggests: the email list is for specific purposes,
> >> if
> >> > it doesn't do other things there are other venues which do.
> >> >
> >> Right. I suspect this mailman system doesn't get cataloged but I have
> >> not tried to prove that.
> >> I've not seen web searches refer to these emails. But I have seen hits
> >> from the VCF Forum.
> >> So its probably wisest to post questions there instead and leave this
> >> site more to the machinations of the VCF club.
> >> Agree?
> >>
> >> > Thanks and regards,
> >> > Herb Johnson
> >> >
> >>
> >
>
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