17 Aug
2014
17 Aug
'14
10:32 a.m.
still all aside it would make a nice peac of wall art
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 11:43 AM, drlegendre . <drlegendre at gmail.com> wrote:
@Phil
We crossed posts. Good find, thanks for confirming my suspicions.
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 11:38 AM, drlegendre . <drlegendre at gmail.com>
wrote:
is?
First thing I notice is that the date, model and
serial numbers are
hand-struck into the badge - they are not part of a sequential, machine
rolled series. This means that anyone could have struck those numbers
into
a blank plaque at any given time. It also
certainly dates from 1963 or
later, fwiw.
I also find it odd that it's engraved by the Bureau of Census - it may
have been in use there, sure, but if this had been presented as a
commemorative to one of the principal individuals involved in the
project,
wouldn't you expect it to bear their name?
It's almost as if the Bureau
of
Census made up & presented this item, rather
than execs or department
heads
from Remington-Rand.
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 11:31 PM, A. P. Garcia <
a.phillip.garcia at gmail.com
wrote:
> I've seen paperweights that contain replicas of the first transistor to
> commemorate its invention. I'm guessing that's the sort of thing this > Anyone seen one of these before and knows for
sure?
>
> Item: Univac I Computer Serial # 001 Plaque 1951 US Dept of Commerce
> Bureau
> of Census
> <http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=191287398219&alt=web>
>
> URL: http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=191287398219&alt=web
>
> Alt URL:
>
>
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