Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dolqci.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!dolqci!mike From: mike@dolqci.UUCP (Mike Stalnaker) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: survey Message-ID: <116@dolqci.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 07:26:24 EST Article-I.D.: dolqci.116 Posted: Mon Mar 4 07:26:24 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 03:03:25 EST References: <435@jett.UUCP> <113@cvl.UUCP> Organization: US. Dept. of Labor, Emp. Train. Adm. Q. C. Group , Wash DC. Lines: 27 > > This is a Serious Servey. How many Sperry Univacs are still out there > > being used for practical purposes. I am going to the University of > > Alabama in Hunstville, which acclaims it has one of the best CS programs > > in the country, and its main computer is a Univac. I am still wandering > > if I will have to write my programs on punch cards.... > > > > - {ihnp4,akgua,cbosgd,nsc}!jett!linwood > > Hmmm...funny, here at the University of Maryland, College Park, we claim > (note that we also take english here) to have one of the best CS programs > in the country too, and although our most used machine is an 1100/82 > (UMD2.ARPA) it is now getting competition from a set of IBM's. We also > maintain an 1100/71 for (research/other) purposes. Rumor has it that we are > slated for an 1100/90 too, when Sperry finishes it. > > And I thought WE were the only people left with an 1100 under EXEC-8! > > -dave hsu As of six months ago, the National Bureau of Standards was still running an 1100/82. -- Mike Stalnaker {decvax!grendel,cbosgd!seismo}!dolqci!mike Be wary of strong drink: It can cause you to shoot at the tax collector... and miss.