Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!lucy From: lucy@rochester.UUCP (Yu Lin) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: request for info on SPERRY UNIVAC Message-ID: <6963@rochester.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 16:04:15 EST Article-I.D.: rocheste.6963 Posted: Sun Mar 3 16:04:15 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Mar-85 01:47:00 EST Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 55 ReCCCCCC q > > > Don't cut SPERRY too short too fast! They make a good computer. > I have put in four years on a couple different UNIVAC computers > and enjoyed the experience very much. Unless the school you are > planning on going to is a real dog, than you won't ever see a > card. > After working on UNIVAC, IBM, HONEYWELL, VAX, and my Macintosh, > I think I would rate the UNIVAC about third, right after VAX and > right before > IBM for ease of use, although DEC never did figure out what a tape was! > SPERRY is selling very well, and many large corporations are now using > UNIVAC computers. (NIKE, LEVIES STROUSE,THE OREGONION (Portland morning > newspaper), etc) Of, cource the main buyer is still the government , > which just last year signed the largest contract for computer hardware > and software ever ordered by the government, The Air Force is going > to put a UNIVAC at every Air Force base in the world. > > Your main consideration should be the quality of the University, and > Instruction that you will recieve, but, no matter how many computers > SPERRY sells IBM still owns the market and, at least in our life- > times, always will. If you want to work for a large company > as a Programmer/Analyst, any IBM experience will help tremendously. > > On the other hand, if your interested in becoming a Software > Engineer,(a much more interesting occupation as you can only > write a couple of financial reports before you go bonkers!!) > you need to find some place that has a VAX with UNIX and > access to ARPA-net. > > > > > Hope this helps instead of confuses. GOOD LUCK! > > > > Chris Ebaugh > Tektronix, Wilsonville, OR > tektronix!iddic!chrism > > > P.S. COBOL SUCKS!