This is really helpful Wayne - thank you!! Very grateful to you all for the
info.
yours, Lori
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Smith, Wayne <Wayne.Smith at warnerbros.com>
wrote:
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 06:36:32 -0700
From: Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org>
To: cctalk at
classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: curious to know if anyone knows what computer this is
Message-ID: <53CE68E0.4020007 at bitsavers.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
On 7/21/14 7:34 PM, Lori Emerson wrote:
Hi all, you might have seen this going around
online today - but I can't
for the life of me figure out what kind of computer Mickey is posing
with.
Anyone know?
http://parksandresorts.wdpromedia.com/media/disneyparks/blog/wp-content/upl…
Lori
Below is a link to an article from the 11/1/82 issue of ComputerWorld
about "Epcot Computer Central" and Sperry Univac's sponsorship of the
exhibit. The story indicates that they had four Univac V77 minicomputers
there, in various configurations, as well as six VAXes. I imagine your
photo relates to that.
http://books.google.com/books?id=OrmcqtZUTMoC&pg=PA19&dq=%22mickey+…
You can also watch a video of the opening ceremony of Epcot Computer
Central (10/18/82) here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3lZW39D1pQ -
featuring what was known as "The Computer Song"
There is a photo looking into the processing center at Epcot here:
http://www.solarius.com/dvp/wdw/communicore.htm - I think you can see
some Sperry terminals on the right.
--
Lori Emerson
Assistant Professor | Director, Media Archaeology Lab
Department of English, University of Colorado at Boulder
Hellems 101, 226 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0226
loriemerson.net |
mediaarchaeologylab.com