17 Aug
2014
17 Aug
'14
9:43 a.m.
@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:
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 is?
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
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