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Univac 1108 At CMU

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As always, I enjoy Carnegie Mellon Today. I was particularly interested in the cover story of the January 2015 issue, “One Moore Milestone.” In the article is an overview of the School of Computer Science’s history—first as a department, then as its own school. One part of the story mentions the delivery of a computer through the roof of Scaife in 1967. I remember it well. This was the Univac 1108. While at school in the late 1960s, I worked for several years as a part-time computer operator, mostly on that machine. Another CMU graduate, Mark Divecchio (E’70), maintains a website that is a remembrance of computers at CMU during that time period, and I am a frequent contributor. One of the website’s pages (#1108) has photos taken by a visiting Brit of that “through the roof” installation—crane and all! The link to page 1108 is: www.silogic.com/Athena/Univac%201108.html (scroll to the bottom, to view the photos). FYI: The website got its start as a remembrance of the Univac Athena, whic

Univac 1108 At CMU Athena Bendix G-20 and CIT G-21 Univac 1108 IBM S/360-67 IBM 1401 Site Home IBM 7040 Hybrid Lab G-15 Bogart DEC PDP-10 CMU Photos from Chris Hausler Univac 1108 At CMU This Page last updated on . This page continues the documentation of the computers at Carnegie-Mellon University in the 1960's. You can click on the links above to learn about some of the other computers. Hi All, These are to my knowledge the only photos I ever took of the 1108 and 360. When they were moved to Wean, summer 1971, they were placed with the consoles right next to each other. The three photos in t

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