[GreenKeys] WU Mawah NJ

[Russ Miller]

I recall that Mahwah, NJ was a Western Union research and development
center,  A one story building at 82 McKee Drive.

Down Route 17, in Upper Saddle River, was Corporate Headquarters, relocated
from 60 Hudson Street in NYC. The Western Union Upper Saddle River
Building, at 1 Lake Street, was recently razed to accommodate a new housing
development.

Russ Miller WA3FRP

On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 9:02 PM John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> wrote:

>
> On 6/20/20 2:27 PM, greenkeys-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
> > They had their own lines and their own
> > microwave trunks ... even back in 1963
> > when I went to work for them ...
> >
> > Later they built a BIG hub and HQ building
> > in Mahwah, NJ ... just 'up the road' from me,
> > which was there until maybe 10 years ago,
> > when they sort of faded away as a serious
> > company.
> >
> > Jim W2JC
>
>      I visited the Mahwah NJ hub in the early 1970s.
> They were using UNIVAC 494 real time mainframe computers for
> switching.  The international gateway for message traffic across the
> Atlantic was there.
>
>     The amount of traffic was tiny by modern standards.
> Undeliverable messages popped up on the screen
> (a UNISCOPE 300) of a telegram operator. About once
> a minute, she had a message to redirect. That's
> out of all transatlantic traffic.
>
> Here's the console of a UNIVAC 494 system.
> The UNIVAC 1108 used the same console.
>
> https://www.philmayes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/b04011a.jpg
>
> Inside that is a custom variant of a Model 35 typing unit.
> 6-level, no shifts, FIELDATA code.
> Keyboard was electronic and built by UNIVAC.
>
>                 John Nagle
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