8 Aug
2001
8 Aug
'01
11:59 a.m.
Jim Tuck wrote:
On Wednesday, August 08, 2001 1:25 AM, Eric Dittman
[SMTP:dittman@dittman.net] wrote:
So would I.. My great-uncle holds a patent on the gyro system used in
them.
Right now the computer is in Iowa, and I'm in Missouri. But I'll bring
it back, next trip. The gyro "stabile platform" used classified
technology and had been removed before the computers were surplussed
out to universities. I'll have pictures, but it may be a month or so.
-- John Tinker
My oldest
is a Minuteman missile guidance computer from 1961. Rumor
has it there is 10k of 12 bit words of storage available on the
fixed
head hard disk. Next oldest is a Imlac PDS-1, circa 1970. After
that,
a Scelbi 8H, 1974.
I'd be interested in pictures of the Minuteman missile guidance
computer, esp. ones of a hard drive that can take that kind of
stress.
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net