23 Apr
2020
23 Apr
'20
6:46 a.m.
I?m fairly sure there was one at University of Texas Center for Space Research, circa 1980
(+/- a year or 4). It would have been in a separate room from the PDP-11 I normally used.
I got to ?fly? a space-suit with a manned maneuvering unit around a wire-frame space
shuttle representation on it for about 3 minutes. I turned upside down, and everyone
thought I was out of control, but I sailed right in through the cargo bay air-lock door as
planned. The author of the sim shrugged, and commented, ?I guess in space, nobody knows if
you are upside down."
On Apr 22, 2020, at 5:54 PM, Randy Dawson via cctalk
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Hi Emanuel,
I remember them well, I was their manufacturer's rep in Houston, and sold several to
petrochem, NASA and universities.
It was a big ticket item, selling for upwards of 40K when loaded up with all the
options.
NASA was using it for animation, the petrochem guys for geology visualizations in oil
exportation. A&M bought one for LANDSAT imagery.
I see if I can find some old ads, they were in the IEEE computer graphics mags quite a
bit.
Randy
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Subject: Grinnell Systems
Hi all,
was just fishing in old memories & graphics systems. We had in the
1980's a big fridge from Grinnell Systems as a frame buffer on a 11/34.
Anybody remember those? Links to any documentation?
Cheers!