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A suitcase I've been dragging around for years containing 21 Police Gazette magazines from 1962 thru 1971. See the next pix series for cover shots and details.
UNIVAC metal tape from 1955, supposedly storing about 3 megabytes of data (6-bit bytes, presumably).
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Chantilly, VA
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Navy Tactical Data System, c. 1957
Navy Tactical Data System, Sperry Univac Defense Systems, United States.
Memory: 32K (30-bit) Core
Speed: 104,000 Add/s
Cost: $500,000
The Navy Tactical Data System (NTDS) was an early transistorized military fire control computer. Computer pioneer Seymour Cray designed the machine in 1957 while at Remington Rand Univac, just prior to joining Control Data Corporation. This armored computer was extremely reliable in hazardous environments and could control battleship radar and weapons systems in real-time.
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
(7089)
Another oblique view at 3:1 macro. Very orderly and pretty, but you can see why we tip-toed past the stacks of core. Any jostling and the rings would scrape off the insulation and short out the circuit
6 August 1976. Department of Mathematics computer course for schools. UNIVAC computer. Geoff Hamer wearing tie.
White Sands Missile Range Museum
The Beginning of Missile Range Computational Equipment
The Monroe desk calculator displayed here was the backbone of the Missile Range data reduction effort for more than 20 years. This and earlier models were employed from 1950 into the 1970's by analysts in the data reduction organizations at White Sands Missile Range, Holloman Air Force Base and the Physical Science Laboratory (PSL) at New Mexico State University.
During the 1945-50 period preliminary reduction of test data measurements was often accomplished by the instrumentation personnel of the White Sands Annex of the Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL) with the more complex data processing and final reduction of test data being performed by BRL's Computing Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD and by PSL. The Computing Section of White Sands Annex was organized in July 1950. The section initially relied solely on Monroe and later Friden desk calculators. The Computing Section was reorganized as the Data Reduction Branch in 1951. In May 1951 an IBM Card Programmed Calculator (CPC) was obtained and installed in the basement of Building 100. By 1953 four CPC'S were in use and the operation was relocated in Building S-1650.
In late 1954 with the completion of Building 1512, the Data Reduction Branch was relocated in that building and the ERA (Univac) 1103, serial number 3, was installed there when it was delivered in March 1955. The 1103 replaced the CPC's and was in turn replaced in March 1962 with an IBM 7090. With the installation of the Univac 1108 in Building 1526 in July 1971 the Data Reduction function was also relocated here from Building 1512. During these two decades (1950-1970) White Sands data analysts continued to depend on their Monroe and Friden calculators to compute optical miss distance, two and three station cinetheodolite solutions, coordinate transformation, Dovap check points and other requirements. Many were so proficient that they would beat the turnaround time of a batch processing, large scale computer by hours.
Elmo had an iPhone way before you losers. Notice the simple, elegant interface. Minimal usage of buttons with a single multi-musical button on the bottom. Multi-touch interface (you can use _all_ your fingers at once to make calls to Saturn, music from outer space, or just dial Snuffleuffugus to hang out with some pizza and beer).
White Sands Missile Range Museum
The Beginning of Missile Range Computational Equipment
The Monroe desk calculator displayed here was the backbone of the Missile Range data reduction effort for more than 20 years. This and earlier models were employed from 1950 into the 1970's by analysts in the data reduction organizations at White Sands Missile Range, Holloman Air Force Base and the Physical Science Laboratory (PSL) at New Mexico State University.
During the 1945-50 period preliminary reduction of test data measurements was often accomplished by the instrumentation personnel of the White Sands Annex of the Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL) with the more complex data processing and final reduction of test data being performed by BRL's Computing Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD and by PSL. The Computing Section of White Sands Annex was organized in July 1950. The section initially relied solely on Monroe and later Friden desk calculators. The Computing Section was reorganized as the Data Reduction Branch in 1951. In May 1951 an IBM Card Programmed Calculator (CPC) was obtained and installed in the basement of Building 100. By 1953 four CPC'S were in use and the operation was relocated in Building S-1650.
In late 1954 with the completion of Building 1512, the Data Reduction Branch was relocated in that building and the ERA (Univac) 1103, serial number 3, was installed there when it was delivered in March 1955. The 1103 replaced the CPC's and was in turn replaced in March 1962 with an IBM 7090. With the installation of the Univac 1108 in Building 1526 in July 1971 the Data Reduction function was also relocated here from Building 1512. During these two decades (1950-1970) White Sands data analysts continued to depend on their Monroe and Friden calculators to compute optical miss distance, two and three station cinetheodolite solutions, coordinate transformation, Dovap check points and other requirements. Many were so proficient that they would beat the turnaround time of a batch processing, large scale computer by hours.
Sucesseur de l'ENIAC, le BINAC a été construit par Eckert et Mauchly, dont la société sera rachetée ensuite par Univac
White Sands Missile Range Museum
The Beginning of Missile Range Computational Equipment
The Monroe desk calculator displayed here was the backbone of the Missile Range data reduction effort for more than 20 years. This and earlier models were employed from 1950 into the 1970's by analysts in the data reduction organizations at White Sands Missile Range, Holloman Air Force Base and the Physical Science Laboratory (PSL) at New Mexico State University.
During the 1945-50 period preliminary reduction of test data measurements was often accomplished by the instrumentation personnel of the White Sands Annex of the Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL) with the more complex data processing and final reduction of test data being performed by BRL's Computing Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD and by PSL. The Computing Section of White Sands Annex was organized in July 1950. The section initially relied solely on Monroe and later Friden desk calculators. The Computing Section was reorganized as the Data Reduction Branch in 1951. In May 1951 an IBM Card Programmed Calculator (CPC) was obtained and installed in the basement of Building 100. By 1953 four CPC'S were in use and the operation was relocated in Building S-1650.
In late 1954 with the completion of Building 1512, the Data Reduction Branch was relocated in that building and the ERA (Univac) 1103, serial number 3, was installed there when it was delivered in March 1955. The 1103 replaced the CPC's and was in turn replaced in March 1962 with an IBM 7090. With the installation of the Univac 1108 in Building 1526 in July 1971 the Data Reduction function was also relocated here from Building 1512. During these two decades (1950-1970) White Sands data analysts continued to depend on their Monroe and Friden calculators to compute optical miss distance, two and three station cinetheodolite solutions, coordinate transformation, Dovap check points and other requirements. Many were so proficient that they would beat the turnaround time of a batch processing, large scale computer by hours.
[F681435] I was told that Joe Lo Bianco's brother was an actor but I knew nothing about that. Of course, the resemblance is uncanny, so whenever I see Tony Lo Bianco in a film or a television episode, I recognize him immediately and always think of Joe.
The Univac 1105 computer was used to store data from the 1960 U.S. Census, and the one located at IIT was one of only three of its kind in existence.
Légende : MEN ON THE MOON - All systems are "A-OK" on engineer's console of Univac 494 Real Time Computer System which routes communications to and from Apollo astronauts. Two 494's at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston receive a continuous stream of data showing conditions inside the spacecraft. A third 494 checks out the other two. The computers, hub of the Communications Command, and Telemetry Systems (CCATS) complex, immediately route telemetry data to the proper location in Mission Control. They were supplied by the Univac Federal Systems Division. Univac is a division of Sperry Rand Coporation.
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USS KING DLG-10, one of three battleships equipped with an NTDS in the US Navy, c. 1960
Navy Tactical Data System, Sperry Univac Defense Systems, United States.
Memory: 32K (30-bit) Core
Speed: 104,000 Add/s
Cost: $500,000
The Navy Tactical Data System (NTDS) was an early transistorized military fire control computer. Computer pioneer Seymour Cray designed the machine in 1957 while at Remington Rand Univac, just prior to joining Control Data Corporation. This armored computer was extremely reliable in hazardous environments and could control battleship radar and weapons systems in real-time.
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
(7090)
Right next to me is a UNIVAC 1232, used from 1967 through 1990 by the U.S. Air Force's Satellite Control Facility in Sunnyvale, CA. It had 30-bit words and about 123 KB of memory.
The cabinets in the back are the expansion and processor units from the Massively Parallel Processor, used at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center from 1978 through 1983.
The console in the back left is part of the CDC 3800 used at the Consolidated Space Test Center in Sunnyvale, CA from the 1960s through the early 1990s. It had 48-bit words, with 128 KB of memory, and cost $1.9 million.
Funny how I went all the way to D.C. to look at computers that used to be right next door at Onizuka Air Force Base in Sunnyvale. :P
(Shot by another visitor)
National Air and Space Museum, Udvar-Hazy Center
[F681516] I would not recognize Warren Greiff from this picture if I hadn't simply remembered it was him. There is a woman player with a cast on her wrist and hand standing at the left. I have no idea who that was.
"UNIVAC
Computing burst into popular culture with UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer), arguably the first computer to become a household name...They proposed a statistical tabulator to the U.S. Census Bureau in 1946, and in 1951 UNIVAC I passed Census Bureau tests...
UNIVAC I supervisory control console
This console could start, interrupt, and stop the UNIVAC I. The operator used the keyboard to send instructions directly to the computer.", Date Introduced: 1951,
Computer History Museum, Mountain View CA
CDC 7600 Computer installed in 1969 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had 5,000 times the computing power of the UNIVAC. This image appeared in the 2013 La Guardia and Wagner Archives calendar, Inventing the Future: Science, Technology, Engineering and Math in America, courtesy of the Lawrence Livermore National Library, 3094206572_5492aaf6d6_o. For additional photos in the Archives' collections please see: www.laguardiawagnerarchive.lagcc.cuny.edu
SINS computer room with Univac Computer On the USS Midway (CV-41) USS Midway Museum San Diego, California
If I had a mind to
I wouldn't want to think like you
And if I had time to
I wouldn't want to talk to you
I don't care
What you do
I wouldn't want to be like you
If I was high class
I wouldn't need a buck to pass
And if I was a fall guy
I wouldn't need no alibi
I don't care
What you do
I wouldn't want to be like you
Back on the bottom line
Diggin' for a lousy dime
If I hit a motherlode
I'd cover anything that showed
I don't care
What you do
I wouldn't want to be like you
[ lyrics | video (1977 - dig that crazy UNIVAC mainframe!) ]
I think at some point or another, everyone thinks the following phrase about someone else, no matter how bad their own lives get: It must suck to be you. For some that's a saving grace, the thought that as bad as it ever gets there's some sad sack out there who has it worse. Or in the words of a persistant Hee-Haw sketch, "if it weren't for bad luck, we'd have no luck at all." (And yes, as a matter of fact, I did grow up in Cornfield County!) People may think that's a bad thing but even the ones who get nasty on you for delighting in others' misery enjoy a little schaedenfreude when it's someone they don't like that did the pratfall. Human nature. Pray for the unfortunate as soon as you're done giggling.
"Pour la première fois en France, entre Paris et Londres, télécommunications par calculateurs électroniques" - Présentation de l'Univac 1004
Very long volume full of flow charts. SuDoc D 208.6/3:Un 3/v.3/sec.5. Issued by Bureau of Naval Personnel
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The pinnacle of computing, circa 1952, the UNIVAC I Supervisory Control console. This is just a way to talk to the machine, the actual CPU was about the size of a New York apartment