16 Jun
2021
16 Jun
'21
12:35 a.m.
Seen in my calendar yesterday:
Jun 15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
70 years! And Unix has been around for nearly 52 of those years.
Amusingly, though, the next entry is:
Jun 16 First publicized programming error at Census Bureau, 1951
Which suggests that they were able to install the machine and getting
it running in only one day.
Greg
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16 Jun
16 Jun
1:54 a.m.
On 2021-Jun-16 10:35:39 +1000, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com>
wrote:
Seen in my calendar yesterday:
Jun 15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
70 years! And Unix has been around for nearly 52 of those years.
Amusingly, though, the next entry is:
Jun 16 First publicized programming error at Census Bureau, 1951
Which suggests that they were able to install the machine and getting
it running in only one day.
The one day difference strikes me as extremely unlikely. It might be useful
to look into references to verify those dates.
For an alternative view, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer) says
LEO 1 carried out "a simple test program" on 1951-02-15, though it didn't
start running the intended business applications until September.
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Peter Jeremy
2:58 a.m.
I would suspect that “delivered” means, in this context, “powered up and passed
diagnostics” and that it might well have been on-site for months prior to that.
On Jun 15, 2021, at 6:54 PM, Peter Jeremy via COFF
<coff(a)minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
On 2021-Jun-16 10:35:39 +1000, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com>
wrote:
> Seen in my calendar yesterday:
>
> Jun 15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
17 Jun
17 Jun
1:44 p.m.
Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
Seen in my calendar yesterday:
Jun 15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
70 years! And Unix has been around for nearly 52 of those years.
And the LEO computer based on EDSAC ran its first demo program on 15th Feb
1951: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)
Tony.
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