Mainframes at Junk Yard

From: Tom Owad <tomowad_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sun Dec 13 13:36:16 1998

>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. :-)

>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.

>It sounds like quite a cool graveyard, though.

I felt like quite the computer archaeologist. :-)

Tom Owad

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