Site Map of the VIP Club and Legacy Anthology
1.0 Site Design Notes
Thanks to usfamily.net for the US flag icon *.gif file used on
the top right of our pages and chapters. 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.
The overall site
framework has four general levels as described in section 2 below.
LABenson
If
an item is considered to be incomplete it is flagged with this
workman icon. In earlier design
structure; the
28. People, Index page tracked legacy
site contributors and people mentioned therein. An update to verify
the new chapter numbers indexing is on Lowell's 2021 to do list.
1.1 Site Navigation:
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 page
or chapter number and last updated date, i.e. site map is page 0.
- At the
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 for a quick scroll up. On longer pages,
there are "TOP" icons at the right of several sections.
- Google 'Search' blocks to find items or names on this site
are on the Home page, the Legacy Anthology chapter, and
the Contacts and Links page.
We have changed file names of a few pages, see the error message
404.shtml for specifics.
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 Internet Service Provider's public domain folders.
Former webmaster, Lowell Benson, also has a synchronized copy as the
webmaster backup.
1.3 Editing Idiosyncrasies:
Within the various pages/chapters, we've generally used (parenthesis)
to indicate an acronym 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 four structure levels are:
Level 1 are the three primary pages
tabbed as Home,
IT Anthology, and
Contacts
& Links. Each of these pages also has a
Google search box.
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 within level 2 and level 3 sections.
2.1. VIP Club Pages
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| Page # |
VIP Club Pages |
Sections of the Club Pages |
| 0 |
Site Map |
THIS
PAGE! Overview of our design ground rules, Site
Design Structure, lAbout Us Pages, Legacy
Chapters table of contents, File folders, Old PageTitles and
revision history. |
| 1 |
Home |
Welcome, What's Happening, Calendar Items, Board Meeting
Dates, Search
this Site, and the Site Disclaimer |
| 2 |
About Us |
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
linked listing of the Twin Cities' area senior centers. |
| 7 |
Club History |
History, Milestones, Previous Officers, Origination by
Millie. |
| 8 |
Contacts-Links |
Board Contacts, Twin Cities Links, Associated Retiree
Web Sites, Technology Research Sites, Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics, and Links Submitted by Club
Members. |
| 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 |
Cruise Form |
Introduction, driving directions -
registration form - Change per event desired. |
| 14 |
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| 15-19 |
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Reserved for new Club items. Old page #s |
2.2 Legacy IT Anthology Chapters
The level 2 chapters and level 3 sections are listed and linked hereunder:
- Chapter 1 - IT 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, and 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 Summary submittals; 9/11 experiences by
Doll, Taipale, Halls, Roselle, and Reischel; plus Diversity
tidbits by Soquist, Benson, Chin, and Unke.
- 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, Enstad, 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 and Iskos; 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 M-O:
Article contributors; Summaries by Mager, Manning, McCarthy,
McKenna, 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-R:
Article contributors; Summaries by Pagac, Parkins,
Petschaure, Patton, Pejsa, Phipps, Pickering, Plait, and
Prokop; Summary by Quiggle; and Summaries by Rapinac,
Raveling, Reiter, Roberts, Roessler, and Rougier.
- Chapter 17 - People S:
Summaries by Sandstrom, Sandusky, Santoski, Sater, Scholz,
Schwitters, Sinkula, Soller, Spearing, Spitzmueller,
Stephenson, Svendsen, Sloan, Schmidt, and Suckstorff.
- Chapter 18 - 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 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; Tricia Myhre; John Enstad; 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.
- Chapter 22 - People
Interviewed Introduction; Interviewee Snippets of Rapinac,
Hargesheimer, Shoquist, Jack Hill, and Larry Debelak. Interview questions by Ole.
ERA Old Timers; recordings of Bill Butler, Jim Wright, Jerry Williams, Ed
Nelson, Jack Ross, Bernie Jansen, Bob Wesslund, Leo Bock, Alden Allen,
Phil Phipps,
Chuck Homan, Gale Jallen, and Warren Burrell. Additional videos of Mron
Lecy, Roy Valentini, Manny Block, and a 2nd of Phil Phipps.
- Chapters 23 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.
- 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.
- Chapter 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 the UNIVAC Magnetic Tape
plating 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 - place holder for ???
- 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, Motley Crew, Procurement, Product Assurance, and
Semiconductor Development.
- Chapter 43 - Field
Service: Introduction, History of Field Service by Dick
Roessler, Johnston Island and Vandenberg AFB by Neumann and
Sandusky.
- 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.
- Chapter 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 90 - 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, Vintage Technology Association,
the Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and
Computation and System Source Computer Museum (SSCM).
- Chapter 100 - Our
Stories: Introduction, Monthly Articles, Site Search
Box, 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 companys' Retiree's web sites.
- Technology Research Web Sites
- Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
education sites submitted by readers.
- Technology Research Sites submitted by members and friends
of the Club.
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
chapters/pages.
- Articles => This folder contains the Articles for the Month linked from the
Our Stories
chapter.
- ATCntl => This folder contains the doc, ppt, jpg, and pdf files linked from the Systems,
Air Traffic Control chapter.
- 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 membership form.
- ClubForms => Contains forms used in newsetter, etc.
- 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
About Us and Contacts-Links pages.
- EngDocImg => This folder contains the files linked from the Engineering and Computer
chapters.
- images => This folder contains the icons and pictures linked from Club pages, the Contacts & Links page, and icons common
to multiple pages and chapters.
- LegacyDocImg => This folder contains things associated
with the Legacy Anthology chapter and its' sub-chapters not
otherwise noted herein.
- Newsletters => This
folder contains the Club newsletters'
print file links dating back to 2004.
- PeopleDocImg => This folder contains the documents and image
files linked from the People and Locations chapters. This
also has the archive of the annual 'deceased' listings.
- Photos => This folder contains the hardware artifact snapshots
linked from the Legacy, Artifacts chapter; thanks to Larry
Bolton for the listing and snapshots.
- SysDocImg => This folder contains the files linked from the
Systems and Locations chapters.
- Temp => This folder contains Club flyers, images, and
documents
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.
- June, 2020: Finished updating chapter 29, People Index.
Seperated People S summaries into seperate chapter because of
large size in memory.
- May, 2020: Re-numbered the Exhibits chapter from 39 to 90. Added section 6.7 of the Exhibits chapter and
revised Our Stories #169 and #186.
- December, 2019: Added section 6.6 of the Exhibits chapter
and section 4.3 of the People2 chapter. Updated club pages to
reflect 2020 officers. Added section 3.7 of the They Flew
chapter 21.
- January, 2019: Began transitioning webmaster
responsibilities from Lowell Benson to Jim Andrews. Sent a
disc copy of the site to CBI for their archives. Activated the
2018 volunteerism survey form.
- 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 section of the home page are not listed.
