Hi
I read one of them. There were enough going
out to schools the create a user group.
I'd have loved to tinker with one when I was in
school.
They were really slow though. I'd have thought
they'd need to be faster to control a missle.
For the time, anything that could compute was
cool.
I wonder how many working ones are left.
Even if it did,'t have the drum unit. That could easily
be replaced with something else to provide the
same function.
Dwight
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 12:26:36 -0800
From: aek at
bitsavers.org
To:
Subject: Re: Minuteman Computer
On 3/5/12 11:54 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
(Or just the guidance system? and the other
components are permitted?)
As Will has mentioned in the past, releasing of D17Bs to schools was a one
time occurrence. The history is completely documented on the scanned material
from the Minuteman User's Group documents on bitsavers.
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/autonetics/d17/
I would appreciate it if people would READ it before saying anything more on
this subject.