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From: mike@dolqci.UUCP (Mike Stalnaker)
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Subject: Re: survey
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Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 07:26:24 EST
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> > 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.  
 
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  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.