nasa museum shows old univac cdc

NASA museum shows old Univac, CDC computers from the 60s

The Smithsonian Institution museum at Dulles Airport in Chantilly, VA

has an interesting replica of a computer room as it might have been at

NASA or a DOD agency in the 1960s or early 1970s (when I worked at the

David Taylor Model Basin, and, later, NAVCOSSACT). There is an old

Univac machine that probably ran assembly language like SAL and SLA

and used special link edits called MITBLDS. (NAVCOSSACT had a Univac

1108 by 1972). There is also a Control Data Corporation machine.

Univac had a major testing facility in Eagan, MN (between Minneapolis

and St Paul, south of I-494) then, and Control Data had a famous

orange building on I-494 to the East a bit. Many chain motels lined

the strip, where computer and technical workers often stayed (as I did