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Re: Univac Military Computer (1960)

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<hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:

> bitsavers has a neat 65 page brochure from Univac advertising its St. Pual 
> based military computers.
>
> http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/univac/military/Univac_St_Paul_1960.pdf
> (note--large file, 46 meg).
>
> Cool photos of consoles, circuit boards, manufacturing, missiles, 
> maintenance gear, etc.
>
> Also description of the Univac airline reservation control system.
>
> On the last page is a map of Univac's plants in St. Paul.  Later I'll 
> compare that to google maps to see what's there today.
>
> (The last company I checked out was once near LAX, today the site is a LAX 
> runway.  So it goes.)

Fair warning: Plant 4 Building 1 was reduced to a pile of rubble, carted 
away, and replaced by a new and shiny similar building.  The Univac plant 
was built in the early 1960's and destroyed about 2010. 

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