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1.  Twin Cities Links, Club Communications
2.  Associated Retiree Web Sites
3.  Other Technology Sites of Interest
4.  Computer History Links for Researchers
5.  Links submitted by readers; Bill Bergen, Dick Lundgren, Ron Q. Smith, and Larry Bolton.

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1. Twin Cities Links, Club Communications

LMCO MS2 in Minnesota uses their world site - www.lockheedmartin.com

LMCO retiree discount URL - requires login to the benefits site:  https://www3.benefitsweb.com/client_docs/879/LMC_Retiree_Discounts_2006_12.pdf

Science Museum of Minnesota - http://www.smm.org [note that Tuesdays are for Seniors]

The Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota - www.cbi.umn.edu/ , their latest newsletter (spring 2010, Vol 32, No. 1) is at http://www.cbi.umn.edu/newsletter.html

The Minnesota Historical Society - www.mnhs.org/index.htm

Unisys in Minnesota uses their world site - www.unisys.com

Unisys & LMCO retirees are eligible for MERSC discounts.  Lost your card?  Contact Lowell Benson or Sue Carrigan for replacement.

Unisys Blue Bell retirees Club site - http://www.ubbrg.com 

Unisys retirees in France - www.anciens-unisys.com [you can switch your screen to English.]

LMCO Retirees - http://www.lockheedmartin.com/aboutus/pay_and_benefits/retirees.html

Engineering Research Associates (ERA) - Remington Rand - Sperry-Rand Records, 1945-1988; http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/cbi00176.xml

The Hagley Institute in Delaware has the ERS - Sperry records from ERA days to the Burroughs-Sperry merger; http://www.hagley.lib.de.us/center.html

The Mapper Story by Lou Schluetter; http://www2.xlibris.com/bokstore/bookdisplay.asp?

U of MN Drone Control Research for LMCO; http://www1.umn.edu/umnnews/news_details.php?release-061213_3069&page=UMNN

USS Midway Museum in San Diego, CA; www.midway.org

While working with Tom Montgomery, et al., at Eagan, Tom Brusehaver wrote; http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7066  

 The Computer Conservation Society holds meetings in London and Manchester; http://www.computerconservationsociety.org - they have 44+ Bulletions on-line. 

From the Blue Bell retirees' site, we linked to ENIAC and EDVAC history; http://mywebpages.comcast.net/arollin11/articlesU11r.htm and the UNIVAC I; http://mywebpages.comcast.net/arollin11/articlesU1r.htm

ATHENA computers by Mark DiVecchio; http://www.silogic.com/Athena.html

Computer History Museum (CHM); http://www.computerhistory.org

CP-642A/B by Ed Thelen using CHM data; http://ed-thelen.org/comp-list/univac-ntds.html

UNISYS predates the ERA start as described in www.unisys.com/about_Unisys/history/index.htm

UNIVAC I websites created by Al Reiter; http://univac1.0catch.com/index.htm and http://univac1.0catch.com/yellowpage.htm .

An Information Technology web site. http://www.ithistory.org/resource_sites/resource-sites.php

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5. Links submitted by readers;

5.1 From Bill Bergen

http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/UNIVAC-FAQ.htm 

http://landru.myhome.net/jtrees/bigcomplist.htm

http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL64-u.html

http://people.cs.und.edu/~rmarsh/CLASS/CS451/HANDOUTS/os-unisys.pdf

http://www.thesciencebookstore.com/compchron.asp

http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/dbrown/8162/timeline.htm

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/univac

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19670007772_1967007772.pdf

http://wwwcomputerhistory.org/collections/search/?x=univac&type=all&page=5

http://ed-thelen.orgcomp-hist/ERA-1101-f09-IntroducingERA1101.pdf

http://content.zdnet.com/2346-17924_22-319868-10.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kignGE771_I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGIteTE9glQ&NR=1

http://www.deed.state.mn.us/facts/PDFs/defense.pdf

5.2 From Dick Lundgren

Mark Greenia, Adjunct Professor, USF has compiled a History of Computing for Lexikon Services; http://www.computermuseum.li.Testpatge/0000WELCOME.htm

http://computermuseum.li/Testpage/UNIVACSYSTEMS-Dates.htm

http://computermuseum.li/Testpage/01HISTORYCD-Chrono1.lhtm

5.3 From Ron Q. Smith

The Computer History Museum now has an icon/link to a YouTube site which features many computer history video vignettes including the UNIVAC/Remington Rand beginning; http://www.computerhistory.org

The Rowayton, CT Historical Society has a program that simulates the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II; http://www.rowayton.org/rhs/Computers/welcome.html and http://www.ingerman.org/niche.htm

The Unisys interactive acrhive; http://www.unisys.com/about_unisys/history/history1.htm

The Unisys History Newsletter; http://www.static.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/randy.carpenter/folklore/

UNIVAC Memories; http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/

John L. Hill Oral history interview by Arthur L Norberg, January 1986 at CBI in Minneapolis; http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/display.phtml?id=56

5.4 From Larry Bolton

http://www.duxcw.com/digest/guides/hd/hd2.htm This page mentions the ERA drum as preceeding disc memory designs.

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