2. Announcements:
August 10th - Blood drive at Lockheed Martin in Eagan. Contact Marion Scott at 651-455-7952 if you can help serve or check-in doners.
August 11th 5 p.m. - The program will be a private tour of the Minnesota Air National Guard (ANG) Museum. Information is on the Calendar page, pre-registration is required!
August 12th , 4 to 8 p.m. - Lockheed Martin would like to invite retired Lockheed Martin employees and their immediate family to join us for our 2010 Company Picnic. It will be held on Thursday, Aug. 12th from 4:00-8:00 p.m. at the Eagan Community Center. The cost is $11 for adults and $8 for children, to cover meals. Please spread the word and ask all interested parties to send an emailed registration to: Wendy Kershner – wendy.kershner@lmco.com, · Please include the number of adults and the number of children with their ages
Then, please send a check in the mail covering all in your party (see cost above) to:
· Lockheed Martin
· Wendy Kershner
· 199 Borton Landing Rd. 127-326
· Moorestown, NJ 08057 Because of budgeting issues retirees will not be eligible for prizes, but all are welcome to participate in the games, events and meals. Please let me know if you have any further questions. We’re looking forward to seeing you!
August 14th - The 14th Annual Field Service picnic will once again be held at Dakota County Spring Lake Park (East Shelter) on Saturday August 14, 2010. From noon to 5PM. The park is located five miles west of Hastings. Come early and join the best ball golf tournament. Mark your calendar and contact Curt Anderson at anderscurt@comcast.net or 651-438-9851 for details.
September 8th, 7 p.m. - Program at the Eagan Community Center featuring a talk by former WCCO weather caster, Bud Kraehling, a few songs by his wife will be mixed in with the talk.
Contact Joe or Lowell to post items here.
3. Article for the Month:
August '10 - History of NSA General Purpose Electronic Digital Computers by Samuel S. Snyder, 1964. This document chronicles all of the National Security Agency’s computers through 1963 including the ERA ATLAS I, ATLAS II, BOGART, the UNIVAC 1224A (CRSPI), and UNIVAC 490. July '10 - Legacy Display at the University of Minnesota - 2010 summer session by Lowell A. Benson June '10 - 200 Nanosecond Memory, edited by Lowell Benson with technical inputs from Dick Erdrich, Curt Hogenson, Don Mager, Ken Pearson, et al.
4. Site Update Log*: Each page has its own revision date at the page's bottom.
July 31 - Added the August Article for the Month to this page and to the Links, Documents page. Updated the CP-823/U entry, section 3.8 on the Computers, 30-bit page using newly provided data from Todd J. Thomas.
July 2 - Added the July Article for the Month to this page and to the Links, Documents page.
June 15 - Added a link to our revised operating By-Laws to the About Us page.
May 25 - Added the June Article for the Month and added Bill Keye to the People, Deceased page. Added a Vern Leas photo and identification to the People, Who Is It page. Added the April/May member survey results as section 7 of this page. Fixed some grammatical errors in the Introduction to the Site Map page.
May 13 - Updated Facilities and Twin Cities Facilities pages with some Plant 4 date information.
April 22 - Add a 'last' paragraph to section 5 of the Naval Systems page. Updated the calendar page with info about upcoming events and the 2011 calendar dates. Changed the Legacy Icon, added 'Established 1980' to the header logo. Archived update log through January of 2010.
April 18 - Archived the 2010 March newsletter. Added the May 'Article for the Month. Removed the volunteer hour survey form.
March 18 - Updated Club Sponsor contact information. Archived the 2010 Jan/Feb newsletter.
March 11 - Added the April Article for the Month in section 3 above and on the Links&Docs, Documents page. Added Al Reiter to section 3 of the People, P thru S page. Updated section 4 of the Links & Docs page with corrections to Reiter's web pages and added the Information Technology web site link. Updated section 3 of the Home, Club History page. Updated section 2.3 of the People, Who is it page. Revised coordinator names in sections 2 and 3 of the Home, Lunch Groups page. Added an item to section 1 of Legacy-Defense, Committee. Updated sections 1, 3, and 5 of the Home, Calendar page. Also changed the header's color scheme to be more spring like.
February 16 - Added the 2009 volunteer hours survey form to this page. Added section 2.4 of the Facilities page and inserted a photo into section 2.3 along with an editor's note.
October 2007 through January 2010 - Chronology of previous updates is in pdf format.
*As of November, 2009 changes to the Announcements section of this home page won't be listed in the change log.
5. Acronyms
| ATC | Air Traffic Control | ISA | Instruction Set Architecture |
| BINAC | BINary Automatic Computer | IT | Information Technology |
| CBI | Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota | ASW | Anti-Submarine Warfare |
| CSAW | Communications Supplementary Activity-Washington | LMCO | Lockheed Martin COrporation |
| EDSAC | Electronic Discrete Variable Computer | MS2 | Maritime Sensors and Systems |
| EDVAC | Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer | NSA | National Security Agency |
| EMCC | Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation | NTDS | Naval Tactical Data Systems |
| ENIAC | Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer | RRU | Remington Rand Univac |
| ERA | Engineering Research Associates, Inc. | U of MN | University of Minnesota |
| FAA | Federal Aviation Administration | UNISYS | UNited Information SYStems |
| CAD | Computer Aided Design | UNIVAC | UNIVersal Automatic Computers |
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