6 Jan
2021
6 Jan
'21
12:01 p.m.
On Wed, 2021-01-06 at 08:52 +0000, Ed Groenenberg via cctalk wrote:
It can be debated of the price for the Bendix is high
or not, but it is truly a nice
and rare machine. And by the looks of it, it seems to be complete too.
Not sure tough if the rack on the right belongs to it.
I hope it ends up in a proper museum and hopefully it can be
displayed in running condition.
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA has one, but it's not
in operating order.I don't know whether they have a mag tape drive.
G-15 was the first machine I used, at the Summer Science Program, in
Ojai, CA in 1963. We used it to calculate asteroid positions on
photographic plates, prior to computing orbit elements -- which we did
by hand on Monroe and Friden calculators.
Several years ago, I wrote an emulator for Intercom-1000. It's at
http://vandyke.mynetgear.com/1401/G15.
UCLA used at least one G15 to syntax check Fortran programs before they
were submitted to the 7094.
Highway departments used them for years because Bendix provided cut-
and-cover software. The software might have been developed by a highway
department in Australia.