20 Oct
2000
20 Oct
'00
1 p.m.
I know that SUADPS as a whole is just now being phased out,
but if the use of the DPS-6 to run it continued into the 90's, I
would imagine it was just into the early, possibly mid 90's. The
last incarnation I used was run on UNIX from micro's, though it still
looked exactly the same from a user's standpoint. I never got to
play Star Trek on the Harris systems, but the Honeywell, as used for
SUADPS, had a nice version of it. It wasn't accessible by the
general user though. It had a bug in it that allowed you to create
energy, instead of using it, by simply putting in a large negative
warp factor and moving even one sector over.
Jeff
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Pretty cool
article on the Apollo guidance system. Whle
we're on the topic of Honeywell computers....does anyone recall which
model Honeywell was used onboard USN ships into the 80's for the
SUADPS system? Or for that matter, which Harris mini was used for
the USN SNAP-II?
thanks
Jeff
The Honeywell was the DPS-6, and it was into the 90's. I think the Harris
was the H500 or H550. The main thing I can remember about the Harris was
that it had 4 80MB 8" Hard Drives. Somewhere I've got a binder with
printouts of all the online doc's on the Harris.
What I want is a copy of the one Star Trek game that ran on the Harris! I
barely remember it, but it was the coolist text based ST game I've seen, and
wasn't one of the 10x10 grid games. Also had probably the best version of
Zork.
Zane