VIP Club & Legacy Anthology Site Map
1.0 Site Design Notes
This site has been hosted on webhostinghub.com since 2011. Please note that
the current site structure was implemented the spring of 2017
to separate the Club Pages from our Legacy Anthology Chapters.
Thanks to usfamily.net for the US flag icon *.gif file used on the
top right of the pages and chapters.
LABenson
1.1 Site Navigation:
The overall site framework has four general levels as described
in section 2 below. We do not have pull-down nor pop-up
screens for positive mouse or finger tip control. Each web site page
is assigned a page or a chapter number, assigned for chapter people
indexing. We've implemented four features to aid reader's and
browser's navigation:
- At the left are tabs for Club and Legacy topics. The bottom of that navigation section has the chapter or page
number and last updated date, i.e. this site map is page 0.
- At the
top right, in the 'On this Page' or 'In this Chapter'
section are quick links
to topics within the web page or Legacy chapter.
-
All
of our footers have a quick link return icon back to the home
page and a "TOP" icon to quick scroll up. On longer pages,
there are "TOP" icons at the right of several section.
- A
Google 'Search' block to find items or names on this site are on the Home, Club,
and Contacts and Links pages as well as on the Legacy Anthology chapter.
1.2 Software:
The webmaster currently uses Microsoft Expression Web 4 software.
This includes a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) layout to provide all pages
with normal Tahoma or Arial fonts. The CSS is an open source
template by Andreas Viklund, modified for our use, reference
http://andreasviklund.com.
The master files are on the webmaster's home computer, File Transfer
Protocols (FTP) are used to update the host's public domain folders.
In the previous design
structure; the
28. People, Index page tracked legacy site
contributors and people mentioned therein. The update to
verify
the new chapter numbers indexing is on my 2018 to do list.
If an item is considered to be incomplete it is flagged with this
workman icon.
1.3 Editing Idiosyncrasies:
Within the various chapters/pages, I've generally used (parenthesis)
to indicate an acronym or abbreviation of the preceding words. We've
used [brackets] to separate supplemental information within sentences. I've also used {braces} to insert my own comments as Editor's notes
to text written by others. When not otherwise obvious, I've tried
to put individual author's initials in brackets at the end of articles;
i. e. [lab] is Lowell Allan Benson, [rae] is Richard A. Erdrich,
[dvm] is Don Mager, etc..
2.0 Site Design Framework
The structure levels are:
Level 1 are the four primary pages
tabbed as Contacts & Links, Retirees' Club, Legacy Anthology, and
Home.
Level 2 are the pages/chapters under the four Level 1 tabs,
i.e. Social Activities and People.
Level 3 are the sections within the
Level 1 and level 2 pages/chapters. Level
4 are the articles, documents, images, and newsletters linked
from the text of the level 3 sections within each page or chapter.
2.1. Retirees' Club Pages
| Page # |
VIP Club Pages |
Sections within the of Club Pages |
| 0 |
Site Map |
THIS
PAGE! Overview of our design ground rules, Site
Design Structure, listing of Retirees' Club Pages, Legacy
Chapters table of contents, File folders, Old Page Titles,
and . |
| 1 |
Home |
Welcome, What's Happening, Planning Ahead, Board Meeting, Search
this Site, Help our Historians, and Site Disclaimer |
| 2 |
Retirees' Club |
Introduction, The Board, Committees, Elections,
and Revision History Log |
| 3 |
Social Activities |
Planned Events; Periodic Group Gatherings; Histories of
the Geek Squad, Old Timers, Roseville Good Old Days,
Syttende Mai, Unihogs/Uniturkeys, and Volunteer Luncheons; and Venue Locations. |
| 4 |
Membership |
Dues, Link to a printable form, membership
benefits, membership qualifications, and associate
membership definition |
| 5 |
Newsletter |
An archive of Club newsletters since 2004 plus links
to the most recent CBI and Blue Bell retirees group newsletters.
|
| 6 |
Recreation |
Golf League, Bowling League, Electronics Club, and a
llinked listing of the Twin Cities' area senior centers. |
| 7 |
Club History |
History, Milestones, Previous Officers, Origination by
Millie. |
| 8 |
Contacts and Links |
See section 2.1 above |
| 9 |
Snapshots |
this will be a new page of pictures replacing the
previous 'who is it page" |
| 10 |
Picnic Form |
Annual announcement, reservation form, and venue
directions - annual update |
| 11 |
Volunteer Form
|
Announcement, survey/reservation forms, and venue directions
- annual update |
| 12 |
Thanks 2 U
|
A thank you page that pops up after
a person has submitted the Volunteer Form, page 11. |
| 13 |
Tour Survey Form |
Introduction, choices, and paper forms -
update as needed |
| 14 |
Fagen Museum Tour |
An excursion planned for August 8, 2018. |
| 15-19 |
|
Reserved for new items. Old page #s |
2.2. Legacy Anthology Chapters
The level 2 chapters and level 3 sections are listed hereunder:
- Chapter 1 - Legacy Anthology:
Introduction, Search Box, Committee, Project Sucesses, Thank You, Acronyms
- Chapter 2 - ERA to LMCO;
70-year Introduction, Corporate Name History, General
Managers,
- Chapter 3 - EMCC to UNISYS;
Philadelphia Introduction, UNISYS Corporate Genealogy,
UNISYS Milestones, UNISYS Computers, Networking History
- Chapter 4 - Burroughs, etc:
Introduction Burroughs bought Sperry, RCA, Sperry {place
holders}
- Chapter 5 - Minnesota's
Technology Wellspring Milestones, 1946 to 2017
- Chapter 6 - Spinoffs of ERA
and CDC 1953-1994; Northport Engineering; and Printware Inc.
- Chapter 7 - Artifacts:
Models, Printed Circuit Cards, Memory Modules, Power Supply
- Chapter 8 - Mementos:
Service Awards, Plaques, Trinkets
- Chapter 9 - Place holder for future topic
- Chapter 10 - People:
Introduction; Listing of Career submittals; 9/11 experiences by
Doll, Taipale, Halls, Roselle, and Reischel; and Diversity
tidbits by Soquist, Benson, and Unke; and Your story.
- Chapter 11 - People A-B:
Article contributors; Summaries by Abbott, Alton, Andrews, Arnold,
and Allen; and Summaries by Becker, Behnke, Benjamin,
Benson, Blackmer, Blattie, Block, Bolton, Bopugie, Bro,
Bukovich, Burns, Burrell, and Butler.
- Chapter 12 - People C-F:
Article contributors; Summaries by Casey, Chappelear,
Christ, Covington, and Cross; Summaries by Davis, Doll,
Donaldson, Dotzler, Duncan, and Debelak; Summaries by
Edwards and Esch; and Summaries by Fedor and Franklin.
- Chapter 13 - People G-H:
Article contributors; Summaries by Geiger, Gignac,
Gildemeister, Giles, Goulding, Granberg, Gregory,
Grendzinski, Grewenow, Gunderson, and Gunther; and summaries
by Hambleton, Hanson, Hartmann, Heiden, Hileman, Hoffman,
Hove,
and Hyslop.
- Chapter 14 - People I-L:
Article contributors; Summary by Irwin; Summary by Jurgens;
Summaries by Kenny, Kistler, Kloner, Klugherz, Kolling,
Kratz, Kuhns, and Koltes; and Summeries by Lahti, Langer, Lantton
and Lovely.
- Chapter 15 - People L-O:
Article contributors; Summaries by Mager, Manning, McCarthy,
Michaud, Moe, Mortison, Mozak, K. Myhre, P. Myhre, and
Myller; Summaries by C. Nelson, E. Nelson, K. Nelson,
Mellis, and Neumann; and Summaries by 'Ole', Overocker, and
Olijinek.
- Chapter 16 - People P-S:
Article contributors; Summaries by Pagac, Parkins,
Petschaure, Patton, Pejsa, Phipps, Pickering, and Prokop;
Summary by Quiggle; Summaries by Rapinac, Raveling, Reiter,
Roberts, Roessler, and Rougier; and Summaries by Sandstrom,
Sandusky, Santoski, Sater, Scholz, Schwitters, Sinkula,
Soller, Spearing, Spitzmueller, Stephenson, Svendsen, Sloan,
Schmidt, and Suckstorff.
- Chapter 17 - People T-Z:
Article contributors; Summaries by Tilford, Tofteland, and
Taipale; Summary by Valentini; Summaries by Walzer,
Weidenbach, Weinhold, Westergren, Widenkops, Widdoss, and
Wold; and Summary by Yahr.
- Chapter 18 - People
Interviewed Introduction; Transcriptions of Rapinac,
Hargesheimer, and Shoquist; and Interview questions by Ole.
- Chapter 19 - Deceased:
Introduction; Obituary Logs; and Testimonials for Arndt,
Bergum, Blixt, Casey, Champine, cohen, Hargesheimer,
Higgenbothem, Hill, Homan, Huberty, Joseph, Keye,
Markfelder, McDonald, Reid, Rubens, Tomash, Wessl und,
Kucera, and Ream.
- Chapter 20 - They Flew:
Oscar Lundbeck; ASW flyers Tomisch, Barness, Kratz, Nickell,
and Ronneberg; Noyes; Jack Anderson and Lowell Benson; Quent
Fabro; Ron Handy; Special Programs Cady, Bezdicek, and Ken
J. Nelson; Hydrofoil Flying Cady, Herbster, and Benson; and
ABCCC Svenson, Rossman, Vitale, and DuBrall.
- Chapter 21 - Anecdotes: HSA
Recollections, Musings by Rapinac, John Alton's
Recollecions, Legend of Jerry Green, John Markfelder,
Marketing by Franklin, Environmental Laboratory, NTDS
software, and SHINPADS.
- Chapters 22 thru 28 - These are place holders for
new people stories or to resize some of the larger pages of
11 thru 18.
- Chapter 29 - People Index:
1) Alphabetical index of people mentioned within Legacy
chapters and 2) Chapter by chapter of names of people
who have contributed to the chapter. {this page has yet to
be updated}
- Chapter 30 - Locations
-
Introduction; Original ERA buildings summaries by Benson, Lundgren, and
Wise and NSTR by Michaud and Nilsson.
- Chapter 31 - Twin Cities':
Introduction; 1987 facilities listing; Desctiptions of Plant
1, Plant 3, Plant 4, Plant 5, Plant 6, Plant 6 the second,
Plant 7, Plant 8, and the MACS building.
- Chapter 32 - United
States sites: Introduction; Manufacturing Facilities in Salt
Lake City UT, Clearwater FL, Pueblo CO, and Clear Lake IA;
Customer sites in rockville MD, Valencia CA, and San Diego
CA; TSD offices; and Marketing Offices.
- Chapater 33 - International sites:
Introduction; Canada; Europe's Bad Godesberg and Paris;
Pacific Rim; and Australia, Africa, and Asia.
- Chapter 34 - Blue Bell
history: Introduction; List of Eniac firsts; UNIVAC I, II,
and III; Technical Publications; Other design efforts;
and Stories from Pioneers Chapline, Bartik, Gehring,
Smoliar, Wilson, and Chintz; and teh UNIVAC Magnetic Tape
plateing facility.
- Chapter 35 - place holder for Clearwater FL
- Chapter 36 - place holder for Pueblo CO
- Chapter 37 - St. Paul
Operations: An Emmett Johnson organization chart-
- Chapter 38 - Winnipeg Operations,:
Introduction, 2012 Reunion, People, Failities, and Products
- Chapter 39 - Legacy
Exhibits: Lawshe Memorial Museum in S St Paul; Unisys in
Eagan; Charles Babbage Institute in Minneapolis; Minnesota
Historical Society Museum in St. Paul; and The Computer
History Museum, the USS Midway Museum, American Computer and
Robotics Museum, the Vintage Computer Federation, and the
Vintage Technology Association.
- Chapter 40. Engineering
- Introduction; Frank Kline tidbits; PC Design by Bob Langer;
Maintenance Panels by Larry bolton; and Embedded Processors by
Harry Wise.
- Chapter 41 - Couplers & ERA
Products: Introduction, Antenna Couplers, Crosley GSE,
Doppler Wind Drift Indicator, and other ERA products.
- Chapter 42 - Component
Engineering: Introduction, Comonent Analysis, Pulse
Transformers, Procurement, Product Assurance, and
Semiconductor Development.
- Chapter 43 - Field
Service: Introduction, History of Field Service by Dick
Roessler.
- Chapter 44 - Interface
engineering: Introduction, Low Level Serial, Fiber Optics,
1773, SHINPADS, communicatand Semi-conductor.
- Chapter 46 - Patents:
Introduction, Archi Lahti, Granberg, Cost Savings, and
Dockets.
- Chapter 47 - Peripherals:
Introduction, DEAC by Kuhns, Commercial I/O consoles,
Ruggedized I/O Consoles, Magnetic Tape Units, Display Units,
Repertoire cards, and Technical Manuals.
- Chapter 48 - Software:
Introduction; Athena; MAPPER Stories by Del Fiacco,
Schlueter, and Thalhuber with Code Cards; NTDS by Byrne;
Computer Aided Design byh Vraa; Simulation Development by
Pluimer, Navy Compilers by Allen; and 1103 Software by Ross.
- Chapter 49 - Training:
Introduction; REcollections by Lyle of TAC, File computer,
Technician Training, and UNIVAC Scientific; and People
stories of Glen Kregness and Gary Holthusen.
- Chapater 50
- Computers: Introduction; Level 2 Chapter
summaries, NTDS Computer Models, Computer Genealogy, a nd
Genealogy Comments by Harry Wise.
- Chapter 51 - 24-bit CPUs:
Introduction; Genealogy Chart; CPUs Classified, ATLAS 1101,
ATHENA, 1824, CP-818, CP-823, and Speed Tally; Repertoire
Cards; and Technical Manuals.
- Chapter 52 - 30-bit
CPUs: Introduction; Technologies; CPU summaries for the
1104, USQ-17, M-460, USQ-20, CP-642A, CP-642B, CP-808,
CP-823, Phoenix, 1230, CP-890, CP-901, 1830B, UYK-8, 1530
MTC, FAA IOOP, and ARTS III IOP; Re;pertoire Cards; and
Technical Manuals.
- Chapter 53 - 18-bit CPUs:
Introduction; Computer Family; Unit descriptions of 1218,
U1500, 1219B, 1219C!, 1818, 1819, UYK-11, and 418 computer
series; Repertoire Cards; and Technical Manuals.
- Chapter 54 - 16-bit CPUs:
Introduction; Genealogy; Unit descriptions of 1616, UYK-15,
MPC16, 3760, UYK-20, AYK-14, UYK-5056, 1834, UYK-44, and
UYK-507; Repertoire Cards; and Technical Manuals.
- Chapter 55 - 32-bit CPUs:
Introduction; Computer Family; Unit descriptions of UYK-7,
AYK-10, CP-140, S-3B, and UYK-43; Memory Processor;
Repertoire Cards; and Technical Manuals.
- Chapter 56 - 36-bit CPUs:
Introduction; Unit descriptions of 1103, 1105, and CP-667;
Repertoire Cards; and Technical Manuals.
- Chapter 57 - AF
Units: Introduction; Genealogy Chart; and Unit descriptions
of 2052, RMF-400, WASP, B-2, YF-23, and JSF (Joint Strike
Fighter).
- Chapter 58 - Special
Purpose: Introduction; 1624; Unit descriptions of UDT, NIKE,
RISC, CP-2044, USQ-69 and CLC; Special Purpose by Alton and
Wayne Olson; and MOD 0 by Franklin.
- Chapter 59 - Commercial
Computers: Introduction; Computer Tree 1950-63; Early
Customer Lists; Computer Tree 1962-80; Repertoirs Cards; and
Technical Manuals.
- Chapter 60 - Systems:
Introduction; Systems Evollution; and Tactical Air Command.
Many of these systems used our computers, software, and other products
as described in the following level 2 tabs.
- Chapter 61 - Air
Traffic Control: Introduction; Genealogy of systems;
Locations; Hardware descriptions; Software descriptions;
Systems descriptions; Documents; Associated sites; and ZKSD
- Chapter 62 - Airborne:
Introduction; ASW stories by Blixt, Clement, Hunter and
others; P-3 to S-3A by Rapinac; ABCCC by Debelak; Quicklook
by CW4 Nesheim; and others such as LAMPS and Drone Systems.
- Chapter 63 - Government
Systems: Introduction; NEXRAD by Pickering, Lang, and
Nelson; Postal; Agricultural; and Intelligent Vehicle
Highway Systems.
- Chapter 64 - International:
Introduction: Canadian by McCarthy; Japanese by Lovely and
Francis; Egyptian Navy by Booher; and European, Ausstralia,
Aftrica, Taiwan, and Thailand country summaries by Lundgren.
- Chapter 65 - Marines:
Introduction, TPQ-27 demonstration, MTDS, MATCALS, and
TERPES.
- Chapter 66 - Aerospace:
Introduction, Vandenberg AFB, Johnston Island, AF Missle
Tracking, Australia tracking sta, Remote Tracking, NASA in
Houston, and Others.
- Chapter 67 - Navy Systems:
Introduction; Survailance Systems; Systems' descriptions;
Submarine systems; a Carrier Ride, TRANSIT GPS; and two NTDS
Service Test stories from Pickering.
- Chapter 68 - ASOC:
Introduction, System Chart, and Product Evoloution - thanks
to Lauren Cady.
- Chapter 69 - Commercial
Systems: Introduction, Topical info, Precision Agriculture,
and flight Reservation Systems.
- Chapter 100 - Our
Stories: Introduction, Monthly Articles, Site Search
Blox, Slide Shows, and a listing of Books that tell parts of
our story.
2.3 Contacts and Links - Page 80 sections
- E-mail addresses for the Club Officers with position foci.
- Twin Cities links for Club member information and venue
reviewing.
- Heritage company's Retiree's web sites.
- Technology Research Web Sites
- Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
education sites.
- Technology Research Sites submitted by members and readers
2.4. Folders containing documents, images,
etc.
This 4th level level consists of documents which open in their own window for
easy return to the linking page. These are Print Documented Format (pdf)
documents, Power Point slides, or jpg charts that supplement topics
on the individual level 1 and level 2 pages as well as the level 3 sections.
- Articles => This folder contains the Articles for the Month linked from the Our Stories tab.
- ATCntl => This folder contains the doc, ppt, jpg, and pdf files linked from the Systems, Air Traffic Control page.
- BitsBakUp =>We have copied the ERA/UNIVAC/Sperry/UNISYS documents from http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/
for quick linking from our site and as a back up should their site disappear.
- cgi-bin => This folder contains the script files referenced by the on-line survey forms.
- CodeCards ==> Volunteer Keith Myhre has scanned over 100 code cards/repertoire cards for linking from various chapters.
- Documents => This folder contains the data files linked from the Club and Contacts & Links pages
- EngDocImg => This folder contains the files linked from the Engineering and Computer pages
- images => This folder contains the icons and pictures linked from Club pages, the Contacts & Links page, and icons common
to multiple pages
- LegacyDocImg => This folder contains things associated
with the Legacy Anthology chapter and its' sub-chapters
- Newsletters => This
folder contains the Club newsletters
dating back to 2004
- PeopleDocImg => This folder contains the documents and image
files linked from the People pages.
- Photos => This folder contains the hardware artifact snapshots
linked from the Legacy, Artifacts page.
- SysDocImg => This folder contains the files linked from the
Systems and Locations pages.
- Temp => This folder contains special announcement flyers
which are temporarily in use.
3.0 Revision History Log*
We track major changes to our site for the convenience of readers.
Note that the revision date of each page and chapter is at the
bottom of the left navigation section.
- April 17, 2018: Moved the Acronyms section from the Site Map
page to the Legacy Chapter. Moved the revision history
from the Club page to the Site Map page. Added the Fagen Museum
excursion form, page 14. Inactivated the Volunteer Survey.
- January 8, 2018: Provide a Site Map tab, i.e. table of
contents on the major page/chapter navigation section.
Updated Club pages to show 2018 officers, etc.
- September 15, 2017: Updated the Exhibits page to show the
transfer of shadowboxes from Roseville to Eagan.
- May 18, 2017: Completed the page to chapter conversion for
the Legacy Anthology - have yet to update the people, index
chapter notations.
- May 3, 2017: Completed the updates to the Legacy, Legacy
Engineering, Legacy People, and Legacy Location chapters. Yet to be
updated
are the Legacy Systems and Legacy Computers chapters. Posted the
Stories for April and May.
- March 15, 2017: Posted the Stories, formerly the Article for the
Month, for January, February, and March.
- January 29, 2017: Posted a new format 'Our Legacy' page/chapter -
only about 60 more legacy chapters to do. Also posted an
'Article for the Month' for November and December of 2016, see the
Our Stories tab.
- January 24, 2017: Activated new format Club pages, Legacy
chapter/page conversions will take place in the March through May
time frame.
- The October 2007 through December 2016
chronology of previous
updates is in printer definition format (pdf).
*As of November 2009, changes to the
Announcements [What's Happening] section of the home page are not listed.
