11 May
2025
11 May
'25
4:48 a.m.
On Sat, 2025-05-10 at 18:14 -0700, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
I tried to get them to take the Unisys 2200 at JPL that had been in use
supporting Voyager, when Angus McRonald, its last user, retired. I had
worked on Voyager, directly and indirectly. I tried unsuccessfully to
convince various teams to write portable software instead of exploiting
all the cool Univac features they could find. That's why some Voyager
software was still trapped in the Univac 1100/2200 world thirty years
after launch. Unfortunately, transportation couldn't be arranged, so
the 2200 was sold for scrap.
On May 10, 2025, at 17:58, Chris Hanson via
cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On May 10, 2025, at 3:38 PM, Van Snyder via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
The CHM already has a 4/260 ;)
The CHM has a formal artifact donation application and review process
and someone would need to transport the stuff to Mtn View if it is
accepted.
Then again there are a couple odd things going on there. An item (the
last Mt. Xinu calendar) that I donated before the pandemic still
hasn’t appeared in their catalog. The Burroughs B1000 in their
collection is now gone. (I was talking to them about getting access
to it to take photos of it but life got in the way and I never got
down there.)
Does the Computer History Museum want any of
this?
Why would you ask this?
Do you want it to wind up in a warehouse or behind a velvet rope to
never be used again?
alan