8 Mar
2012
8 Mar
'12
7:46 p.m.
I can't remember where but, I read a web page of someone once who worked
for a scrapper that got one or more whole minuteman I missiles at
auction and ripped them apart for scrap. Everything but, the warhead. I
seem to remember they were not from the US government but, from the
company that assembled and tested them.
I wouldn't be surprised if this bit didn't come from that sort of
thing. One from a school would probably be more complete and not have
the bottom divider shield portion. Maybe someone here that has seen
one in real life knows. Seems an odd piece to leave attached when it was
used as just a computer.
On 3/8/2012 7:01 PM, Rick Bensene wrote:
The question is, what happened to the rest of the
machines that didn't
make it into the education system? Were they destroyed (e.g., bashed
to bits by soldiers with sledgehammers, run over by heavy equipment)?
Maybe some of them "went home" with military folks to play with? Were
these machine de-militarized?