4 Feb
2007
4 Feb
'07
3:23 p.m.
Not at Langly
On 2/4/07, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 4 Feb 2007 at 12:53, Brent Hilpert wrote:
--
Jim Isbell
"If you are not living on the edge, well then,
you are just taking up too much space."
Given Ampex tape drives, has the "7070"
number lead to the presumption
in the
discussion that it was an IBM processor?. Might
it be that it was made
by
another manufacturer, and a one-off/special
contract that wouldn't
typically
show up in popular lineages?
I suspect that the 7070 in question probably was at NASA Langley and
fed by Ampex (possibly FR 300 or FR 1400) telemetry tape machines,
probably from the Minitrack satellite telemetry tracking system. The
FR 300 was a very popular 7 track unit--I believe that early CDC
systems (e.g. 160) even used them.
Just more guesswork here.
Cheers,
Chuck