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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Newsgroups: net.works
Subject: Re: xeroX slime ad warning
Message-ID: <1498@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Apr-86 15:03:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: ecsvax.1498
Posted: Mon Apr 28 15:03:05 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 2-May-86 20:44:11 EDT
References: <719@hoptoad.uucp> <1846@calmasd.CALMA.UUCP> <321@pyramid.UUCP>
Reply-To: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr
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Summary: OCLC uses Sigmas

In article <1846@calmasd.CALMA.UUCP> jpm@calmasd.CALMA.UUCP (John McNally) writes:
>>... Xerox also built the SIGMA-7 computer - the first
>>good time-sharing machine - way ahead of its time, it even
>>pre-dated the IBM 360 (TSO - yyuk!).  How many people have ever
>>heard of the SIGMA series of multi-user computers?

I learned a couple of months ago that OCLC is still running on Xerox
Sigmas.  OCLC is a service offering want amounts to a huge multilibrary
card catalog.  If you haven't heard of it, your reference librarian has.
It is one of the oldest and most important on-line information services.

When OCLC's Mary Kay Jackson informed me they were still running Sigmas
I was flabbergasted.  "My goodness!" I said.  "What are you going to do
when they stop selling leaded gas?"
-- 
D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-3695
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