[vcf-midatlantic] Museum Report 2021-10-23 & 2021-10-24

[Duane Craps]

Outstanding,

Now the homework assignment:

A good place to start would be the 1219 Maintenance Study guide that I 
scanned and uploaded to Bitsavers.org:

Index of /pdf/univac/military/1219 (trailing-edge.com) 
<http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/univac/military/1219/>

It was for the original 1219 not the 1219B, the main difference is that 
the 1219 had a later designed memory. Chips in the memory drawer. I 
called it a 2.5 generation computer or maybe 2.25 as the memory was only 
one drawer. The study guide is keyed to the page numbers in the logic 
prints. Fortunately the memory pages were at the back of the book so 
that the other page references seem to work.

Logic Prints:

PX4682-2-2_TYPE_1219B_DIGITAL_DATA_COMPUTER_VOLUME_2_SECTION_9_Jul72.pdf 
(trailing-edge.com) 
<http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/univac/military/1219/PX4682-2-2_TYPE_1219B_DIGITAL_DATA_COMPUTER_VOLUME_2_SECTION_9_Jul72.pdf>

Pages 9-1 and 9-2 show how to read the rest of the book.

Duane

On 10/24/2021 4:55 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> A second 17 year old came by and had a massive interest in mainframe
> computers and is interested in becoming Bill Dromgoole's Univac 1219
> apprentice. This will benefit us a lot to have an additional person who
> knows about this machine and can operate and demo the machine.
On 10/24/2021 4:55 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> Deborah was the docent for the museum on 10/23/2021 had 15 high interest
> visitors. This is highly unusual, but most welcome. Perhaps the lasting
> effects of VCF East for those who heard about and couldn't make the show.
> Usually this time of year we get very few visitors and usually they are of
> low interest, but we have had increasing numbers of high interest visitors.
> It is expected that visitors will be high in December as the model train
> show will be coming in InfoAge again.
>
> Today I met a 17 year old who was an exhibitor at VCF West, who goes to
> school in Connecticut and has a massive interest in IBM computers. His
> family currently lives in Boca Raton and knows about a quarter century club
> where former (current?) IBMers meet to socialize.
>
> A second 17 year old came by and had a massive interest in mainframe
> computers and is interested in becoming Bill Dromgoole's Univac 1219
> apprentice. This will benefit us a lot to have an additional person who
> knows about this machine and can operate and demo the machine.
>
> After docenting today, I went to the warehouse to organize the VCF East
> stuff so that it will be ready for Festivus and VCF East 2022 (April
> 22,23,24)
>
> That is all for now. Please drive through.
>
> =========================================
> Jeff Brace
> Vice President & Board Member
> Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner
> Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity
> http://www.vcfed.org/
> jeffrey at vcfed.org

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DuaneCraps
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