On 05/25/2011 01:50 AM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
Ran across this while searching for some tek stuff.
Fellow has the
boards from the first version of the Minuteman guidance computer
(Autonetics D17B, late 50s, discrete transistor) laid out as wall art
in his living room.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ODi7qSpYg
Explains a little about what happened to those computers: donated to
universities in the early 70s when they were phased out and apparently
inspired a few papers and user group discussions. The CHM has one, I
wonder if any others survive.
e.g.
http://www.stormingmedia.us/75/7570/0757067.html
(looks like a few people here were discussing this last Sep on the VCF
forum)
Also a few escaped the unis to persons. I used to know someone that had
one and helped him power it
and try to program it. This was back around '71 and I have no clue
where things got to. I do know it was
bear to program and the logic was temperature sensitive. Can't se that
I understood it then but it helped
me learn.
Allison