19 Mar
2008
19 Mar
'08
9:11 p.m.
--- Bob Rosenbloom <bobalan at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
I picked up what I believe is a console from an
Autonetics model D-37
Minuteman I missile guidance computer. There's a little info
on the web about the computer but nothing that shows the console.
It certainly looks plausible that it is a console for a disk-memory
computer.
I assume the console was just used for testing on the
ground or possibly it
was used in the computer's development.
That would be my guess. Where did it come from? Any chance of getting the
D-37 itself? Apparently, when the original guidance system was upgraded
in the 1960s, some old Minuteman I CPUs were donated to universities.
--Bill