17 Mar
2012
17 Mar
'12
8:58 a.m.
--- On Fri, 3/16/12, William Maddox <wmaddox at pacbell.net> wrote:
From: William Maddox <wmaddox at pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: Autonetics D17 - D37 console info?
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Date: Friday, March 16, 2012, 4:10 PM
--- On Fri, 3/16/12, Bob Rosenbloom
<bobalan at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
Could be. It did come from a Govliquidation auction though. It was installed in a rack
with a military 9 track tape drive. I would believe they used commercial sometimes for
testing and development.
Sure wish I had the processor to go with it!
Bob
Could it have been used for testing a processor
out in
the
lab before installation on a missile? Note the
nice
wooden
sides!
The styling is definitely industrial, not military, which
makes
me wonder if there was a commercial version of the D37.
(Univac had an industrial machine what was a repackaged
version
of a military processor -- I don't recall the model.)?
More
likely, there was a repackaged version of the machine for
use
in software development, with more appropriate peripherals
for
testing code than a gyro platform and a nuke!
--Bill