15 Nov
2017
15 Nov
'17
7:23 p.m.
On 11/15/2017 09:13 PM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote:
On 2017-11-15 10:07 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
Check out this photo :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environment#/media/File…
next to the ashtray, there's a little round hole with a
chrome ring - that's where a standard car cigarette lighter
plugged in. A 6 V lighter would work fine off the massive
filament transformers these things had.
Jon
On 11/15/2017 07:09 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk
wrote:
The IBM 803 proof machine developed in the late 40s had an
ash tray built in, it was the only IBM machine I ever saw
that had one. I stood right in front of the scopes at a
SAGE site but I don't recall the ash trays or lighters.
But I do remember the light guns, blue lighting and the
aful flash of the high persistance scope when they whrere
drawn.
Paul.
Earlier, there was the SAGE computer (the air defense
one, not the PC by the same name), which had built-in
ash trays at each operator station.
Ash trays?? HA, they had auto-style CIGARETTE
LIGHTERS
BUILT INTO the "radar screen" consoles! Take a look at a
photo!
Jon 