My guess, a refurb from when Unisys purchased Sperry Corp.
No it was a merger of two totally different architecture types of machines that supported two totally different markets. I never understood why. But Mike Blumenthal made it happen and made lots of money from it and then moved to France. After the merger of two 60k employee companies they layed off many. I never really expected it to survive. The stocks of both companies were in the 60s. After the merger the stock dropped to the 20s, and eventually went down to $2 or $3. Now Unisys makes no computer (no 1100s or B series or V series).I always thought Unisys (Burroughs and Univac) bought Sperry in the 80s, good to know!
Is there a book about that period? A few years back I discovered that Unisys was making an MCP emulator available for student use and signed up to get a copy, but it's since been discontinued. Did they move entirely in to software virtualization?No it was a merger of two totally different architecture types of machines that supported two totally different markets. I never understood why. But Mike Blumenthal made it happen and made lots of money from it and then moved to France. After the merger of two 60k employee companies they layed off many. I never really expected it to survive. The stocks of both companies were in the 60s. After the merger the stock dropped to the 20s, and eventually went down to $2 or $3. Now Unisys makes no computer (no 1100s or B series or V series).
Do you mean IBM 1360 Photostore? That was anathema to a lot of users at Livermore. There was a policy that any online files not accessed within a certain period would be shuffled off to Photostore. Retrieving them was quite another matter and not always successful. There were bootleg programs in use to periodically touch all of a user's files to keep them from being Photostored. Talk about a Rube Goldberg bit of gear.I was doing some research recently on the big file storage systems LLNL developed in the 70's and 80's connected with the Octopus network and its decendents.
several generations of the later stuff as well. the whole PDP-10 roll-in roll-out system with baked-in security,Do you mean IBM 1360 Photostore?
Thank you. I'm going on our current information. I'll get better some complete photos.Better pictures would be helpful. That does not look like anything Univac built and certainly isn't from UNIVAC I
This could be. I had been puzzled that I didn't see anything like this in photos of the UNIVAC I. Information we have about this box says the pieces we have are UNIVAC I, but I am doubting that now. I'm thinking like you- the Burroughs badge inicates its burroughs construct, and Remmington asset. I'm going to do a complete photo set and post it here.Could the Remington Rand sticker be an asset tag? Maybe they owned a Burroughs machine?
This is a tube era unit.Sperry bought Remington Rand in 1955. Unisys was formed when Burroughs bought Sperry in 1986!![]()
I was there, part of Burroughs SDC, left right after the merger.No it was a merger of two totally different architecture types of machines that supported two totally different markets. I never understood why. But Mike Blumenthal made it happen and made lots of money from it and then moved to France. After the merger of two 60k employee companies they layed off many. I never really expected it to survive. The stocks of both companies were in the 60s. After the merger the stock dropped to the 20s, and eventually went down to $2 or $3. Now Unisys makes no computer (no 1100s or B series or V series).