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From left to right, Bob Blue of IBM, Henry Tholstrup of Friden, Dick Utman of BEMA, Vince Grey of ASA (receiving the document), Len Griffin of US Navy, Charles Phillips (X3 chairman, transmitting the document), John Booth of Teletype, Eric Clamons of Univac, John F. Auwaerter of Teletype.
At BEMA headquarters, 235 E. 42nd Street, New York, New York.
Computer Standards Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
This is a hilarious record from 1960 by Sheldon Allman with songs from the future
with titles like:
Radioactive Mama
Rocket to the Moon
Univac and the Humanoid
Space Opera
Girl in the 4th Dimension
Crawl Out through the Fallout
Schizophrenic Baby
Big Brother
Change
Walking on the Ground
Some sample lyrics are- (Radioactive Mama-done "rock and roll style"), "your kisses do something to me, in oh so many ways, I feel them go through me, all those gamma gamma rays",
and, "since I kissed you baby, that evening in the park, I lost my hair and eyebrows,
and my teeth shine in the dark".
(Schizophrenic Baby)- "I'm getting 2 for the price of one, schizophrenic baby,
I love both of you, Schizophrenic baby, I'm a schizo too- (me too), my alter ego and you and me, and your alter ego, we all will be, engaged in a new group activity".
In "Crawl Out through the Fallout", he sings, "kiss those radiation burns away", and, "think about your hero, when you're at ground zero", and, "I'll love you
all your life, although that may not be too long".
"Univac and the Humanoid" is a tragic love ballad about a love that could not be consumated between a Univac mark 2 and an Xf1 Humanoid - "dry those oily tears, you know that robots can't afford to cry, for it surely rusts their gears".
And lastly, "Changes" is a song about a martian begging in the streets of New York City, looking for "change for a henn".
Hilarious stuff!
What may appear to be a jumble of wires is actually the CDC 7600, one of the fastest supercomputers in the world between 1969 and 1975. With its first installation at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the CDC 7600 continued to lead in computing and custom-software development for nuclear design and plasma simulations. It had 5,000 times the computing power of the UNIVAC, and connected researchers at remote workstations to the CDC 6600s and 7600s, creating one of the first -- and the largest -- such networking systems.
Photo courtesy of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
An image I use frequently as a desktop and also currently printed as the image on the lid of my 13" MacBook Pro (under a clear Speck case).
The Apple glows!
(circuit image is from a series of shots I took of a dismantled Apple Keyboard's beautiful mylar trace circuits which I cleaned and inverted in PS)
"This computer was used from about 1967 through 1990 by the U.S. Air Force's Satellite Control Facility in Sunnyvale, California, in the heart of "Silicon Valley." At this facility, now called Onizuka Air Station, more than a dozen other Sperry 1230-series computers operated in "real time" around the clock as part of a system that controlled and operated satellites for the Air Force, NASA, other government agencies, and commercial firms. The 1232 also supported Space Shuttle missions.
Manufactured by Sperry Univac's St. Paul, Minnesota, division, the 1232 was a military version of the UNIVAC 490 general purpose commercial computer. It used discrete transistors, was optimized for real-time use, had a 30-bit word length, and initially was supplied with 32,000 words of memory—about 123 kilobytes."
– From the information panel in the Smithsonian
The host of The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation television show, Mo Rocca, talks with The Henry Ford Curator of Transportation, Matt Anderson, for an Innovation Nation segment on air traffic control.
The box in front of Rocca and Anderson is a 1969 air traffic control radar scope. This model of computer-integrated scope was one of the first units capable of displaying an airplane’s identification number and altitude directly on the screen. This model of scope was built by Texas Instruments Inc. for the Univac Division of Sperry Rand Corp. This particular scope was used at Detroit Metro Airport from 1970 to 2001.
The plane in the background is a 1928 4AT-B Ford Trimotor. The Trimotor was a passenger and cargo aircraft.The first Trimotor flew in 1926. The capabilities of the aircraft, the Ford name, and a Ford advertising campaign helped popularize travel by air. The Trimotor was designed by William Bushnell Stout and built by the Stout Metal Airplane Division of the Ford Motor Company. The skin was corrugated aluminum alloy. The aircraft was powered by one Wright Cyclone and two Wright Whirlwind engines.
This particular Ford Trimotor, “Floyd Bennett”, was the first aircraft to fly over the South Pole. This occurred in 1929 as part of Richard E. Byrd’s expedition. Byrd named the plane after the pilot of his earlier North Pole flight, who had died a few months before the South Pole flight. Edsel Ford was a sponsor of the South Pole flight and donated the Trimotor to the expedition. After the flight, the aircraft was left in Antarctica for five years. After it was returned to the United States, Edsel Ford donated it to the Henry Ford Museum.
Seen at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn, Michigan. Photo by scattered1.
Vol. CLXIX (169), December 1964, No. 11
"Burton Reveals Secrets of 'My Life With Liz'"
Here are some intimate glimpses of this storm-tossed marriage.
"Guard Your Health: Cancer Menace Still Lurks in MILK Containers"
Despite new FDA laws and Police Gazette's repeated warnings the cancer danger in wax milk containers is as grave as it ever was!
Is Your Hair Growing or Going?
A New Free Book for Men Past 40 Troubled With Getting Up Nights. Hips, Legs, Nervousness-Tiredness. Non-Surgical Treatments
"What Price Beatlemania?"
Frustrated biological urges, says a famed psychiatrist, are behind this new madness!
"Mussolini's Secret Love Letters"
Callous and brutal with the many women he conquered, Benito's love letters also show that he had a tender, romantic side...
Scarne on Gambling: Smart Bluffing is Good Poker. How to avoid stupid playing.
First issue with lingerie ads: Paul Valentine & Princess Flavine's "Provacatives"
Vol. CLXXI (171), December 1966, No. 12
"HITLER'S DAUGHTER MARRIES A JEW"
The self-professed [Ha!] daughter of Der Fuehrer says "Nazi fanatics don't scare me!"
[Her name: Gisela Fleischer Hoser]
"The Unknown World of Jackie Gleason"
In an exclusive peek backstage, the tough, tense life of this top showman is revealed; it's a pressure cooker!
"MEAT — America's No. 1 Health Hazard... WHY?"
Chemical additives in a livestock feed leave residue in the meat which can cause serious allergies—even death!
"The Secret Life of a Millionaire Playboy!"
If you think it's easy to give away money read this complaint by Huntington Hartford, the A&P heir.
"Tire Gyps...AMERICA'S TOP KILLERS"
With bad rubber on your wheels, death is in the driver's seat!
How To Keep Your Marriage Alive:
Amazing SABO hair groomer.
Trim That Waistline!
The UNIVAC I was the first American computer designed at the outset for business and administrative use (i.e., for the fast execution of large numbers of relatively simple arithmetic and data transport operations, as opposed to the complex numerical calculations required by scientific computers). As such the UNIVAC competed directly against punch-card machines (mainly made by IBM). Oddly enough the UNIVAC originally could not read or punch cards, hindering sales to companies concerned about the high cost of manually converting large quantities of data on cards. This was corrected by adding offline card processing equipment, the UNIVAC Card to Tape converter and the UNIVAC Tape to Card converter, to transfer data between cards and UNIVAC magnetic tapes. However, the early market share of the UNIVAC I was lower than the Remington Rand Company wished. To promote sales, the company joined with CBS to have UNIVAC I predict the result of the 1952 Presidential election. UNIVAC I predicted Eisenhower would have a landslide victory over Adlai Stevenson whom the pollsters favored. The result was a greater public awareness of computing technology.
UNIVAC I used 5,600 vacuum tubes, 18,000 diodes, 300 relays, total weight 19 tons, consumed 125 kW, and could perform about 1,905 operations per second running on a 2.25 MHz clock. The Central Complex alone (i.e. the processor and memory unit) was 4.3 m by 2.4 m by 2.6 m high. The complete system occupied more than 35.5 m² of floor space. Altogether 49 of these computer systems were built. The selling price was a million dollars in 1957.
This computer was in operation at the Batelle Institute in Frankfurt from October 19, 1956 until 1963.
This UNIVAC CP-642B Digital Data Computer was installed on the USS Midway in 1963. It processed the gyroscope data and distributed it throughout the ship to navigation, weapons, and radar systems. In addition, computer data was sent to the flight deck and used to align the inertial guidance platforms of the A-6A Intruder and E-2C Hawkeye aircraft prior to their launch. Only able to operate 200,000 instructions per second, the computer was 17,000 times slower than a modern 3.4Ghz computer.
USS Midway (CVB/CVA/CV-41) was an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class, and the first to be commissioned after the end of World War II. Active in the Vietnam War and in Operation Desert Storm, currently, she is a museum ship in San Diego, California.
With the aging of the Grumman S-2 Tracker and the increasing effectiveness of Soviet submarines, the US Navy issued a requirement for a new carrier-based ASW aircraft. Lockheed won the contract, partnering with LTV to design carrier-specific equipment and Univac to design the ASW suite. The resulting S-3A Viking first flew in January 1972 and entered the fleet in February 1974.
While the S-2 integrated the hunter-killer team concept into a single airframe, the S-3 went one step further by completely computerizing the sub-hunting process, integrating the entire sensor suite into one system rather than in several as on the S-2. Initially, this employed a Univac AN/AYK-10 computer served by Texas Instruments AN/APS-116 radar and AN/ASQ-81 MAD sensor in a retractable tail boom. Flown by a crew of four, the S-3’s interior was so efficient that one aviation writer described it as the most compactly designed aircraft in history.
The S-3A--nicknamed "Hoover" for the sound of its engines-- acquired a reputation for being a reliable, easy to fly aircraft, and spawned a number of variants, including the US-3A carrier-onboard delivery (COD) transport aircraft and the ES-3A Shadow Elint variant. A dedicated KS-3A tanker never went into production, but S-3s were increasingly equipped with buddy refuelling packs. When the KA-6D Intruder dedicated tanker was retired from the US Navy in the mid-1990s, the S-3 took over the role, though its relatively slow speed meant it could not accompany strikes into enemy territory. Despite that, the S-3 always had the capability to carry not only antisubmarine ordnance such as torpedoes and depth charges, but also bombs and later the AGM-84 Harpoon antiship missile and AGM-65 Maverick AGM. The S-3’s antiship capability was used in both Gulf Wars: in 1991, a S-3 sank an Iraqi attack boat with conventional bombs, while in 2003 a S-3 destroyed an Iraqi command post with a Maverick in Basra.
Beginning in 1991, the S-3As in service were modified to S-3B standard, with upgraded avionics and a new APS-127V synthetic-aperature radar, giving the S-3B a significant ship-detection and SAR capability as well. Though the ES-3A was withdrawn from service in the mid-1990s, several S-3Bs were converted to littorial reconnaissance (Gray Wolf) and ground surveillance (Brown Boy) roles. With the reduction of submarine threats to the US Navy, the S-3 fleet is being gradually retired; those remaining in service have had their ASW equipment removed and serve primarily as tankers. Their role has been largely replaced by the SH-60B/F Seahawk series, and, aside from a handful of test aircraft, the S-3 was retired in 2009.
If you're like me and you like small-scale aircraft, like to do what-ifs, and are on a budget, the Micro Machine toy collection might be worth getting into. A few years ago, I picked up a Micro Machine P-3 Orion and this S-3 Viking at a used toy store in Phoenix, and finally got around to the S-3 a few months ago. It originally came in "Bad Guy" camouflage (which looked a lot like the US Navy RA-3 scheme in Vietnam), but I went with the overall, albeit boring, light gray used by the Navy towards the end of the S-3's career. This one, however, belongs to my fictional Free Intelani Naval Air Arm.
Because of its tiny size, there isn't a lot of room for markings on something this small, so tailcodes and such are beyond my ability. All the same, the marking on the tail is supposed to be a stylized kangaroo (as the S-3 did a lot of up-and-down while hunting submarines), marking this as an aircraft of Naval Air Antisubmarine Squadron 1.
For their size, the Micro Machine line has a good bit of detail and panel line work, so this ended up turning out pretty well, all things considered.
Vol. CLXIX (169), November 1964, No. 10
"Eating Trout May Cause Cancer"
Government secrecy has been hiding the fact: Commercial fish feeds have caused an epidemic of the dread disease that can spread to humans!
"The Commie Blueprint for Stirring Up Race Riots"
"How To Build Molotov Cocktails" on handbills in Harlem!
"Full-Size Compact Electric Guitar with Amplifier" only $19.95!
"Tips From An Expert: Tricks To Land the Wily Pike"
When you've got forty pounds of pike trailing your lure, hope that you know what to do next!
When computers started to become commercially available, there were eight large manufacturers in th U.S. - occasionally referred to as Snow-White and the Seven Dwarves. (Machines were also developed in Britain, Germany, Denmark, France and the USSR)
Burroughs, Univac, Honeywell, RCA, CDC, NCR, and GE were the seven dwarves. IBM was more elephant than Snow-White, and brought with it a cult-like heritage from its earlier origins.
This IBM song-book (ensconced in a glass display case at the Computer History Museum) bears testimony (sic) to those days. "...In appreciation of the able and inspiring leadership of our beloved President..." The sort of thing one might expect from the disciples of a brain-washing cult-leader.
Original image via www.plyojump.com/classes/mainframe_era.html
or, www.flickr.com/photos/publicresourceorg/493885707/
Same scene but different angle. www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/UNIVAC-1-GraceHopper.htm This looks even more obviously staged.
This UNIVAC 1232 computer was used from 1967 to 1990 by the US Air Force's Sattellite Control Facility in Sunnyvale, California for "real-time" control. It was also used for space shuttle missions.
UNIVAC was the name of a business unit and division of the Remington Rand company formed by the 1950 purchase of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, founded four years earlier by ENIAC inventors J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly and the associated line of computers which continues to this day in one of the two such lines offered by Unisys.
The name stands for UNIVersal Automatic Computer.
Stonebridge Park 22.4.1985
The two curved buildings behind the WCML are known as Brentfield, and housed the Sperry / Univac computer companies.
They look pristine in the spring sunshine in 1985, but have been derelict for at least fifteen years.
Early 1950's UNIVAC computer. That's the same Remington that made electric shavers at the time. Deutsches Museum, Munich.
Full blog from the trip is at www.anirama.com/trip/europe2012/
Two operators review message traffic entering a Univac DCT 9000 unit in the computer side of a message center. The airmen are members of the 1965th Communications Squadron, Air Force Communications Command (AFCC).
The UNIVAC 1108 Computing System At Georgia Tech with the Operator (Mr. Tillirson) at the Control Console and the Assistant Operator (Mr. Knight) mounting a data storage magnetic tape on one of the four tape units. When deciding which image to post today, Mr. Tillirson's fashion sense made this photo a clear winner.
A control panel for a UNIVAC 1232 Computer. This computer was used roughly from 1967 to 1990 at the U.S. Air Force's Satellite Control Facility in Sunnyvale, California. This computer is the military version of the UNIVAC 490 general purpose commercial computer. At the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center
UNIVAC 1 was the first commercially available computer. It has been produced from 1951 to 1958. The strange structure at the bottom is one of its memory units based on mercury delay lines. I took this picture in the "Deutsches Museum" in Munich. In case you are interested in the technique of this computer watch this film about UNIVAC 1.
SINS computer room with Univac Computer
On the USS Midway (CV-41)
USS Midway Museum
San Diego, California
March 2006
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