2. Announcements:
The 2010 Membership Directory is now available electronically, send a note to newsletter@vipclubmn.org if you'd like to receive the pdf file. [2/8/2010]
February 10th - 7 p.m. in Plant 4. Our guest will be nationally acclaimed Charlie Maguire, singer / songwriter / story teller / recording artist who will regale us with American folk tradition about Minnesota. Programs are held in the auditorium just behind the Guard Desk. Club members are welcome to bring a neighbor or friend. Click here to get Driving Directions
. March 3rd - 1 p.m. Legacy Committee in the LMCO MPR room. New members are welcome to participate.
March 10th - 7 p.m. at the Eagan Community Center. Program will be a presentation about airport security by Tim Blalark, details in the newsletter distributed to members.
April 8th - Blood drive at LMCO, contact Marion Scott (651-455-7952) to volunteer for greeting or serving either in the morning or afternoon.
April 21st - 8:30 a.m. at the New Brighton Legion club. A breakfast meeting to honor our 2009 volunteers. We'll post an on-line registration form about 1 March. Coordination by Bernie Jansen.
April 30th - 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., mark your calendar for the 'Roseville Good Old Days' gathering. We'll gather in the Atlantis Ballroom of the Mermaid at 2200 Hwy 10, Moundsview. There will be a $1 registration fee to cover the groups' room rental. A cash bar will be available and a cash snack bar (probably tacos and/or hot dogs w/chips.) We need an advance head count of attendees and 'snackers', please send a note to labenson@usfamily.net if you plan to attend - state if you'll be eating. Thanks.
Contact Joe or Lowell to post items here.
3. Article for the Month:
February '10 - Tom Webb has written "The almost Silicon Valley", published in the St. Paul Pioneer Press on January 3, 2010. Used with his permission. December 09 - Vern Sandusky has provided us with two 1972 Field Service reports describing the repair actions taken on the Johnston Atoll after hurricane Celeste. The first is an initial analysis of damage, the second about the repairs to bring the systems back on line.
4. Site Update Log*: Each page has its own revision date at the page's bottom.
January 31 - Archived the December newsletter on the Links-Docs, newsletter page, also corrected a couple of dates on the Home, Calendar page.
January 26 - posted the March 'Article for the Month.'
January 20 - Did some minor format changes to the home page.
January 18 - Added section 5.4 to the Links page. Added sections 2.5 and 2.6 to the People, P thru S page. Added the February Article for the Month. Added a photo of the Memory Processor design team to section 4 of Computers, 32-bits page. Added David P. Andersen's book to section 2 of the Links, Documents page.
January 7 - Updated the Legacy 'logo' with a Minnesota state background. Re-built the Links page. Initiated some cosmetic changes to enhance page visual aspects. Archived update log through October of 2009. Moved the 'Who Is It' page to be a sub-tab under the primary People tab. Updated the Legacy Committee page.
December 23 - Added the January Article for the Month. Added some identifications to the 'Who Is It' page. Expanded section 6.2 of the Engineering, Memory page with an input from Dick Petschauer. Added 2010 dates to the Home, Calendar page.
November 28 - Added the 2009 obit list to the People, Deceased page. Added a photo to Don Weidenbach's career summary. Add a ~1953 pay stub scanned image to Ed Nelson's career summary. Add a snapshot to Rollie Arndt's article on the People, Deceased page. Added eight more computer history links to section 5.1 of the Links & Docs page.
November 23 - Added the December Article for the Month, section 3 above and on the Links, Documents page. Added a new 'Who Is It' picture and inserted identifications of some of the previously ?ed persons. Inserted a new section 2 onto the links page [parle vous France?], moving the other sections down. Added section 5, TERPES, to the Systems, Marines page. Added a Links page link to the latest CBI newsletter. Updated the Legacy, Committee page with U of MN cooperative activities information.
October 2007 through October 2009 - 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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