Univac rescue

From: Sipke de Wal <sipke_at_wxs.nl>
Date: Wed Sep 11 12:28:00 2002

Any photo material aviable soon ?

Sipke de Wal
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Merle K. Peirce" <at258_at_osfn.org>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Cc: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: Univac rescue


>
> On monday, a crew of RICM faithfuls and friends from RCS/RI visited
> International Bridge and Iron in Newington, CT. Our purpose was to
> rescue to largely intact Univac systems. The oldest, a 9300 went of Bill
> Donzelli of RCS/RI. The other system was a Univac 80, ca 1973, and it is
> presently sitting quietly in a storage locker until we can give it our
> attention.
>
> A vilely hot day, and it was a bit of shock to realise that the 9300 did
> not ride on casters, hence a nasty moving job, but everything was loaded
> into the truck in a little over 4 hours, including 3 1710 card
> punch/verifiers.
>
>
>
> M. K. Peirce
>
> Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
> Shady Lea, Rhode Island
>
> "Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
>
> - Ovid
>
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