----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronn!Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 1:31 PM Subject: Re: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles)
> At 10:01 AM 10/8/03 -0500, Dan Minette wrote: > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "d.brin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 5:43 PM > >Subject: Re: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest > > > >computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've > >mentioned > > > >before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me. :-) > > > > > > > > > I had an Apple II with serial number in 5 digits. Used integer basic > > > and a newfangled (earliest disk drive) My brother lost it. > > > >Well, that's certainly earlier than the first personal computer that I > >owned; which was a IBM PC, which I bought in '83. The first one I worked > >on was an old submarine computer from the '50s. As far as I know, its the > >only computer I worked on that was certified to be ruggadized against depth > >charges. > > > Who built it? I recall when Sperry-Univac (as it was known in those days) > built models suitable for use on military aircraft . . .
I'm not sure. But I do know that Sperry-Univac was a merger that was after this time. My dad worked for Sperry Gyroscope and then Sperry-Univac for over 30 years, starting in '48. Univac stuff happened in the '70s.
Yep. Then in the early-mid 80s (83 IIRC), they dropped "Univac" and started referring to the division which made computers as "Computer Services, a division of Sperry Corporation" . . .
His 20th anniversary gift was given by Sperry Gyroscope.
I don't recall any "Gyroscope Services" in the 80's, though . . . ;-)
-- Ronn! :)
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