4. Site Update Log: Major items only, note that each page bottom shows its own revision date and page number.
May 10th - Added the Club 2009 dates to the Calander/Activities page.
May 8th - Updated announcements and Calendar page with 2009 schedule.
May 1st - Continued QC cleanup of several pages.
April 23rd - Updated the Computers page by putting the defense genealogy charts into a *.pdf file for reading and reference ease.
April 22nd - Added May Article for the Month, added SNERT to Low Level Serial Input/Output. Updated CP890 write-up with information from Don Mager. Added a LMCO retirees' benefits web site to section 2 of the Links page, thanks to Harvey Taipale.
April 15th - Did some cleanup based on initial QC process feedback; thanks to Millie, Rapp, and Tom.
April 12th - Added Thailand to the Systems, International page. Completed the indexing of person's names appearing on the pages of this web site.
April 11th - moved commercial processor's subpage to be a level 2 tab below the computers level 1 tab. Added place holder page tabs for Sperry, Remington Rand, and RCA information before their mergers with EMCC, ERA, etc. Updated description of Site Map on Links page.
April 9th - Did some formatting cleanup on a couple of pages, added a Home, Mementos page to separate trival/trinket items from models and artifacts.
March 30th
- Add a Patuxant River facility snapshot, Added a couple more 'Motley Crew' names, moved Drum memory from Engineering to Engineering-Memory. Added a pulse transformer article by Larry Bolton. March 25th - Added the April article of the month, added a Rapinac Soapbox Derby anecdote, added milestones; 1970 - ARPAnet, 1981 Japanese P3, and finished topical article links from the people pages.
March 19th - Added Taiwanese business to the International Systems page. Added 1224 (CP-818) information to the 24-bit computer page. Updated the Legacy Logo to reflect 1945, the year that ERA filed incorporation papers with the Minnesota Secretary of State - added PARAMAX while updating. Changed Legacy committee co-chair listing from Ole to John Westergren - moved Ole to the retirees section. Added a Field Service Picnic description and snapshot to the Ad Hoc Group page.
March 18th - Added the 1977 beginning of CBI to the milestone list. Also added 1945, 1948, and 1980 events. Updated the spinoff page introduction with a bit of CDC information.
March 13th - Added 1957 Antenna coupler financial data from Marc Shoquist to the Coupler section. Added a couple more links from Bill Bergen. Some minor errors fixed based on Larry Bolton and Robin Bjorklund feedback. Updated announcements.
March 4th - Added a Printware article onto the Spinoffs page. Updated the component analysis item from Larry Bolton. Added four more computer history links from Bill Bergen. Added an anecdote from John Markfelder. Updated the Ad Hoc Group introduction with corrections from Warren Burrell. Completed a housekeeping pass.
February 28th
- Added a cost savings section and write-up to the Patent page. Also updated my own career summary while doing some housekeeping on most pages of the site - off to Alexandria for a long weekend! February 27th - Added a new Article of the Month (link above) and added half a dozen history papers to the ATC Systems page. Posted an updated Webpage List, now including a list of available documents and a list of images being used on this site. Added some hardware photos to the Engineering, Memory page and wrote a bit about core and film memory. Added some component photos to the Engineering, Interfaces page and wrote a bit about Low Level Serial.
February 26th - Added links to several topical *.pdf files on the Legacy, UNISYS - Processors page. Also tweaked the legibility of the Legacy Logo at the request of Ole. Added a couple of items to the Legacy, LMCO Milestones page.
February 25th - Expanded the 'Roseville Good Old Days' information and the First Friday's luncheon information on the Ad Hoc Group page. Added the CUT, 1818/ILAAS, and proposed 1219C tech. information to the 18 bit computer page.
February 22nd - Embellished the 30-bit computer page with a few photos and added some technical information to the 18-bit page. Added a couple of small items from Frank Kline and Larry Bolton at the beginning of the Engineering page.
February 20th - Did an update to the Systems, Air Traffic Control page. Sorted some of the Links for clarity, did you know that LMCO is funding a drone control project at the U?
February 19th - Inserted some snowbird snapshots and mention of a planned "UNISYS, Roseville GOOD Old Days" gathering in April on the Ad Hoc Group page.
February 18th - Added Larry Pierson's comments to John Booher's Egyptian Navy article on the the Systems, International page - also added Lundgren's VIP Club newsletter articles about business in Africa and Australia to that page. Added Harry Wise's Q69B notes to the Engineering page. On the Engineering, Peripherals page I've now transferred the magnetic tape section information and added Lyle Franklin's comments to the DEAC article. Added some history comments to the 1616 information from Lyle Franklin. On the Engineering, Field Service page, I've started a training section to capture salient tidbits.
February 15th - Added a new page; Legacy, UNISYS Processors with information from Ron Q. Smith. Added a Northport Engineering tidbit onto the Legacy, LMCO Spinoffs page.
February 14th - Added a new page; Legacy, LMCO, documents and moved tables and information from the Links/Pub page - then added a site map section to the Links page. Added octal characters to the computer tabs then sequenced the sub-page tabs in chronological order of the ISA introductions.
February 12th - Added a career summary from Don Blattie and a contact tidbit from Richard Prokop, and a transcribed oral interview with Fred Hargesheimer.
February 11th - Added a computer genealogy chart to the Legacy, UNISYS page. Added a new page, Legacy, LMCO-Milestones to post some information from Quint. Added a note about Rollie Arndt to the People-Deceased page. Added a link to the Minnesota Science Museum and a U of MN Drone control article on the links page. Also added five more computer history links from Ron Q. Smith. Changed all sites linked from our Links page to open in a new browser page thus facilitating switching back to the VIP club site. Began the Systems - Air Traffic Control page. Finished inserting a copyright symbol and page number onto all pages while doing some housekeeping.
February 8th - Filled in more information on the Artifacts page, feedback about the 'mini-slide shows' is welcome. Added a newsletter section on the Home-About Us page. I added an Ad Hoc page as a subsection of Home to describe activities by former employees which are endorsed by the Board but not planned nor scheduled. Tweaked the Legacy logo again to include VIP Club Burroughs members - I think that this is good enough until whenever.
February 5th - Transferred Hardware-Patents information to the Engineering-Patents page. Updated Don Lovely and Mike Kokesh's Carrier ride story on the Systems-Naval page. Transferred corporation spin-offs to Legacy-LMCO, Spinoffs. Started transfer of artifacts snapshops to Legacy-LMCO, Artifacts. Changed to a more descriptive Legacy logo, shown here on the left - Thanks to several for feedback which has enable me to arrive at this icon for Legacy page headers.
February 2nd - Enabled a search box at the top left of each page. Began coding links to *.pdf files so that they will open in a separate window.
February 1st - Added (c) symbol into the footer. Added site page numbers to update lines at the bottom of each page.
January 31st - Created a Facilities-Manufacturing page, initially containing the Procurement article by Mike Svendsen and the Product Assurance article by Dick Roessler. Transferred information from previous site to Systems-International and People-Anecdotes. Transferred old site information to Systems-Marines, Systems-ASOC, Systems-Missiles, and Systems-Postal. Added Our Legacy, Sesquicentennial, and CBI contact persons to the Contact page. January 30th - Updated the Engineering-Couplers, Engineering-Peripherals, Systems-Naval, Engineering-Memory, Engineering-Field Service, and Facilities-Twin Cities pages with information from previous site and a few more photos. Moved Anecdotes to the People section.
January 29th - Added a Peripherals page to Engineering and updated the Engineering-Interfaces page by transferring information from prior site.
January 24th - Added career information for Kevin R. Giles. Added first oral interview transcript, Jim Rapinac. Started to fill in the Legacy - UNISYS page with information from Ron Q. Smith. Added a non-legacy article of the month: Carbon Heat Trapping: Merely a Bit Player in Global Warming by Dick Petschauer.
January 22nd - Created, then transferred information to Engineering - Interfaces (this came from the prior Hardware-Interfaces page and includes fiber optics and SHINPADS descriptions.) Created then transferred information to Engineering - Software. Completed transfer of information to Facilities and its third sub-page, International - we are looking for authors to complete these three pages.
January 18th - Created and transferred information to Facilities - Twin Cities and Facilities - United States pages.
January 17th - Created a new Facilities page between LMCO and UNISYS Legacy tabs. This page now contains the corporate name table and the 1987 listing of all Twin Cities facilites plus a 1950 photo of the ERA plant.
January 16th - Added career information for Glen Hambleton, Jay Gildemeister, and O. Wynn Roberts. Added disclaimer at bottom of this page.
January 11th - Updated the Links/Pubs page with a couple more computer history site links from Dick Lundgren and an article found by Don Weidenbach while googling George Hardenbergh.
December 18th - Completed transfer of computer information from old Legacy site; including addition of 36-bit page, Air Force page, 32-bit page, and Other page. Added career summary for John (Jack) Blackmer. Added career tidbit from John Hartmann. Add four web sites of interest links from Bill Bergen.
December 17th - Added two persons on the People, Deceased page. Updated the Home, About page with a snapshot and election section. Added a new page - People, Oral Interviews in anticipation of available transcriptions early next year. Transferred the 18-bit computer and 16-bit computer information from old site.
December 13th - Finished the Computers, 24-bit page, combining the old site's Early and 24-bit pages.
December 12th - Added career information for Woody Spitzmueller. Added new Article for the Month, Business in Europe by Dick Lundgren. Finished the Computers, 30-bit page. Completed the Engineering 'base' page which was titled Hardware in the old site. Updated the Contact Us page.
November 28
- Added career information for Bill Kenny, Joel Tofteland, and Dr. Steve Yahr. Began Article for the Month section on this page. Finished transferring career summary information from old site 'Contributors' to this site, People section and sub-pages. November 11th - Began transfer of Legacy information from old site to here.
October 3rd - The VIP Club Board of Directors accepted the New Club and merged Legacy site concept; Joe Schwarz agreed to be the backup webmaster for Lowell Benson.
September 15th 2007 - Lowell registered this site name for the VIP Club via Microsoft's Office Live system.
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