User talk:Woodym1

I am unable to add a UNIVAC III to the list, one which I personally helped install at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Va During 1964/65 or so. The machine was installed in a "building within a building" at the shipyard. I cannot recall it's serial. But I can recall fighting with the console output writer... a beastly old Model 28 Teletype box! I still have UIII SALT and COBOL reference cards. Although I was formally trained on the UIII, The UNIVAC 1004, and SS80 kept me busy...busy...busy! Besides, the UIII settled down and except for minor problems, ran pretty reliable!

-- (unsigned) 2008-10-15T03:29:59‎ Woodym

GCR and Potter Instruments
Hi Woodym1, I hope you are well and still reading this... Several years ago you left a comment on the Talk:Magnetic_tape_data_storage page regarding Potter Instruments and group-coded recording.


 * It is rather odd and sad that Potter Instruments, with its many, many contributions to magnetic tape (and disk) recording technology is all but forgotten. The company folded in the seventies. They held hundreds of patents including 6250 GCR which was done for Burroughs. They were another of the "plug compatable" tape, disk and printer manufacturers during the sixties, early seventies. IBM used (under license) many of those patents. Woodym1 (talk) 00:29, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

This could be read as if IBM had licensed GCR from Potter for use in their 6250 bpi tape machines. As I am currently researching the history and development of GCR for the Group-coded recording article, any background info would be highly appreciated here or there. And, yes, we still need an article about Potter as well. ;-) Thanks a lot. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 15:05, 21 June 2017 (UTC)