17 Feb
1999
17 Feb
'99
5:57 a.m.
Richard Erlacher wrote:
It's somewhat divergent from the current topic, but it might interest some
to know that the Honeywell '516 is the engine control computer which was
still in use on the space shuttle at the time of the Challenger accident.
There were two, one redundant, for each engine, of which I believe there
were three.
Dick
My old friend Jack Gieryck (spelling may be mangled -- after all these
years) left CDC Terminal Systems Div. (RSVL) to develop code on the
'516 control computers about 1976; has anyone run into him?
Michael Grigoni
Cybertheque Museum