Mainframes at Junk Yard - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

13 Dec 1998

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 If it's a Univac I, I want it :-) 
That's what its labeled.  Coleman's Surplus is at 360 Klinger Rd, 
Millersburg, PA 17061.  Their web site is at <www.colemans.com>.  No clue 
how much they wanted for it, but getting it out of there is the _real_ 
problem.  Of course, getting it to California might be kind of 
challenging as well.  :-)

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 I really don't know much about the
history of the Univac, but the same name was used for a bunch of quite
different machines I think.  The first one was the direct descendent of
the ENIAC, so no, the "Uni" in Univac has nothing to do with Unix, if
that's what you're thinking. 
Yes, that's what I was thinking.

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 It sounds like quite a cool graveyard, though. 
I felt like quite the computer archaeologist.  :-)

Tom Owad

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