John B and I have one of the units + all the cards from a second one.
We need the disk drive. for the unit to have it function.
Luckily one of the units we have is still functional, but was headed for
the wall art display fate, and was rescued, but the other one had been
broken into the boards. They were collected for spares for the one that
does work.
if anyone has information on these machines, or where a disk could be
had it would be interesting.
Jim
On 5/24/2011 10:50 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
Ran across this while searching for some tek stuff.
Fellow has the
boards from the first version of the Minuteman guidance computer
(Autonetics D17B, late 50s, discrete transistor) laid out as wall art
in his living room.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ODi7qSpYg
Explains a little about what happened to those computers: donated to
universities in the early 70s when they were phased out and apparently
inspired a few papers and user group discussions. The CHM has one, I
wonder if any others survive.
e.g.
http://www.stormingmedia.us/75/7570/0757067.html
(looks like a few people here were discussing this last Sep on the VCF
forum)