2. Announcements (reference Calendar page for event details) Contact Lowell to post items:
Volunteer Opportunity: The Legacy Committee needs volunteers to help catalogue photos and negatives prior to sending them to the Charles Babbage Institute or the trash can. The 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month until the job is done, contact Harvey Taipale. - Volunteer Opportunity: Delve Research (http://www.delve.com) is looking for men & women to evaluate ‘Bladder Control’ products. They will pay a stipend to each person who registers, picks up samples, then reports back after use. If you are interested, call 952-858-1572 and ask for Ann Marie or Mike by January 25th. Delve offices are located just south of the Mall of America. By L.A. Benson
- February 8th, 2 pm – Coffee, cookies, and a program speaker at UNISYS, Roseville Superior conference room. Minnesota State Patrolman, John Thompson will talk about crash reconstruction, inattentive driving, etc.
- February 9th, 7 pm - Lowell will represent the Club at a Ft. Snelling roundtable discussion - the topic is "Code-Breaking and the Beginning of Computers" featuring author Colin Burke. Others are welcome, see http://www.mn-ww2roundtable.org/ for additional information.
- March 14th, 2 pm - Coffee, cookies, and Chad Roberts from the Dakota County Historical Society who will talk about a future exhibit of Legacy artifacts - the UNISYS, Eagan facility, visitor entrance conference room.
- Vice President Appointment – At the December 7th Board Meeting, we appointed volunteer RC ‘Bob’ Hanson to serve as the 2012 VIP Club Vice President.
- IT Legacy goes international - Our 16-bit computer page has been translated into the Bulgarian Language, to view that translation browse http://www.fatcow.com/edu/cp-16bit-bl/. We've also given permission for another technocrat to translate our IT Legacy, Pg10 into the Romanian Language, browse http://webhostinggeeks.com/science/vipclubmn-imcolegacy-ro.
3. Next Event Driving Directions
February 8th, 2012 at 2 p.m. will be coffee, cookies and Sgt. John Thompson from the MN State Patrol talking about the newest state driving laws, and...
Please note that we are having an afternoon meeting instead of the traditional evening meeting so that those of you who don't like to drive at night or prefer church choir to VIP meetings have an opportunity to meet with fellow retirees.
Use the map at the right to obtain driving directions from your home or office - Click on Driving Directions, then click on edit route to insert your personal starting point. The default start driving point of this Bing software 'application' is in the middle of Nebraska - hope to see you at out event in February.
If using an in-vehicle GPS unit, the address is 2470 Highcrest Road - Roseville, MN 55113
Future programs and events are listed on our calendar page.
4. Article for the Month: We are in need of more articles!
January 2012 - Lowell Benson has developed a Computer History Review of the first 25 years of computing with year 2011 observations and opinions relative to stored-program computers.
December - A review of the four IT Legacy Display venue setups used this fall to get the word out - by Lowell Benson.
November - "Focus on the Future," a set of viewgraphs used by John Westergren on 11/18/2011 while briefing the Unihogs/Uniturkeys attendees about the Legacy Committee status and processes.
October ' 11 - "The Digital Age," a reproduction of an Inventing Tomorrow article used with U of MN, CSE permission.
Previous 'Article for the Month' items are listed on the Legacy Project, Documents page.
5. Site Update Log*: Each 'tabbed' page has a revision date in the 'scroll to' box.
January 18th - Posted a link on the IT Legacy page to the Romanian translation of the page, see left column bottom of section 1.
January 14th - Reformated the Home, Membership page. Updated the calendar page.
December 31 - Re-positioned the Index page under the primary 'People' tab. Updated the header and footer for a New Year color variation.
December 26 - Renamed the primary 'Facilities' tab to 'Locations'. Moved sub-tabs 'Burroughs' and 'Blue Bell' under the Locations major tab. Moved the Who Is It page from a People sub-tab to an IT Legacy sub page. Renumbered the Articles for the Month on the Legacy, Documents.
December 22 - Posted the January Article for the Month.
December 14th – Posted the December Article for the Month, updated the Calendar/Event page, and archived the July-August update log. Started putting page numbers into the header tabs. Updated the Home, Calendar page. Made the Recreation page a sub-tab of the Home page.
December 7th - Posted the November Article for the Month and updated next event information. Posted links to the September, October, and November 2011 archived newsletters
November 10th - Posted election results and updated the Next Event information.
October 26th - Added an 'unknown persons' photo to the People, Who Is It page, changed the background color scheme, and did some assorted typo clean up.
October 21st - moved the Who Is It page from a sub-tab of the Links page to be a sub-tab of the People page.
October 20th - Added Dick Huberty to the People-deceased page. Added Clear Lake, IA to the Facilities, US page, then finished updating the People, Index page.
October 18th - Updated the Article for the Month listings on this page as well as on the Legacy Project, Documents page. Archived this section entries from before July. Added a section 6 to the Systems, Air Traffic Control page to provide a brief summation of the ZKSD project.
October 11th - Posted the Unihogs/Uniturkeys 2011 information flyer
October 10th - Moved the newsletter archives to a sub-tab of the home page. Moved the Documents page to a sub-tab of the Legacy Project. Added the 2012 schedule to the Calendar page.
October 2007 through September 2011 - Chronology of previous updates is in pdf format.
*As of November, 2009 changes to the Announcements section of this home page are not listed.
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