12 Oct
2006
12 Oct
'06
9:33 p.m.
William Maddox wrote:
Hi, Jim.
I exchanged a bit of email with the seller, and he
confirms it's all a joke. Seems like he's got a bet
going with a colleague over how long this ad will
last.
Too bad. I spoke with Billy Pettit about it, and he says there was both
a Univac 1101, and a Univac 1 available in Atlanta at one point for the
taking and there was a three way "you take it, no you take it" finger point
situation between University of Mississippi, Lockheed and some other
school when it was decomissioned.
He says he actually got the documentation from such a system when it
went begging. So there was more than just smoke to a story of a Univac
in Atlanta.
Oh well, one cant let things go unexplored. We have at least two
improbable finds from such listings, and getting there with the means
to move sometimes is the difference between scrapheap and not.
Jim