15 Dec
2001
15 Dec
'01
11:17 p.m.
On December 14, Chad Fernandez wrote:
The Post Office still uses Unisys stuff, although, I
think they may be
switching to IBM. I saw the Portage (next city over) PO had new looking
IBM stuff a few weeks back.
Unisys had/has a govt. division of the company.
The post office in Beltsville, MD just switched over to that
Unisys stuff maybe 2 years ago...
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
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15 Dec
15 Dec
11:59 p.m.
On December 14, Chad Fernandez wrote:
In the early 90's, after the Zenith govenment contracts for
supplying the Z-248's and such had run out, Unisys supplied the DoD
with 386SX-16 machines in various configuration under the Desktop III
contract. One interesting aspect of these machines was that they
came standard with SCSI interfaces and hard disks. Now most of the
systems, at least for the Navy, are supplied by Dell and will likely
continue to be for the forseeable future.
The post office in Greenbelt, MD has IBM terminals and they
are fairly new.
Jeff
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The Post Office still uses Unisys stuff,
although, I think they may be
switching to IBM. I saw the Portage (next city over) PO had new looking
IBM stuff a few weeks back.
Unisys had/has a govt. division of the company.
The post office in Beltsville, MD just switched over to that
Unisys stuff maybe 2 years ago... 
16 Dec
16 Dec
1:31 p.m.
I may have owned a pair of those machines. I bought a pair of sx-16 for
$40 from a guy that said that he got them for a friend that did service,
but would say what company or organization.
I used to sort of collect Unisys PC's. My first couple were 286's with
MFM drives, then I got the 386sx-16's, then a DX-33, then a 486 server.
I picked up another 486 for family, and upgraded the 386DX-33 to a 486.
I still have the 486's, although they aren't currently being used.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
Jeff Hellige wrote:
In the early 90's, after the Zenith
govenment contracts for
supplying the Z-248's and such had run out, Unisys supplied the DoD
with 386SX-16 machines in various configuration under the Desktop III
contract. One interesting aspect of these machines was that they
came standard with SCSI interfaces and hard disks. Now most of the
systems, at least for the Navy, are supplied by Dell and will likely
continue to be for the forseeable future.
The post office in Greenbelt, MD has IBM terminals and they
are fairly new.
Jeff
--
Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File
http://www.cchaven.com
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757
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