On August 8, 2001 Merle Peirce and Russ Goodman visited the Coventry Credit Union's Manville office to retreive a DEC MicroVaxII system. It was a difficult rescue requiring the complete disassembly of the system cabinet. The system was complete, installed August 28-29, 1986 for the former Marquette Credit Union.

Marquette was on the the financial institutions closed in Rhode Island`s banking crisis in 1991. Our unit sat unused for 9 years in the basement of the branch, which appears to have housed a small computer operations centre at one time. When Coventry Credit Union re-opened the branch three years ago, the MicroVax was not needed, and remained in a corner of the basement until given to RICM. As an additional bonus to us, an unneeded VT-100 terminal was donated.

The branch manager, Karen Lambresi, pictured in the second picture, assisted in this donation.