7 Aug
2001
7 Aug
'01
9:11 p.m.
On Wednesday, August 08, 2001 1:25 AM, Eric Dittman
[SMTP:dittman@dittman.net] wrote:
So would I.. My great-uncle holds a patent on the gyro system used in
them.
On second thought, no. He'll launch into his usual tirade about how GD
screwed
him on his later patent on night vision systems..
Jim
My oldest is a
Minuteman missile guidance computer from 1961. Rumor
has it there is 10k of 12 bit words of storage available on the
fixed
head hard disk. Next oldest is a Imlac PDS-1, circa 1970. After
that,
a Scelbi 8H, 1974.
I'd be interested in pictures of the Minuteman missile guidance
computer, esp. ones of a hard drive that can take that kind of
stress.
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net 
8 Aug
8 Aug
1:50 a.m.
There was a Minuteman guidance computer for sale on ebay within the last 6
months...some guy from New England. Looked to be in very good shape, but he
wanted >$20,000 for it. He used the angle of it's a relic of the cold war.
Never got any bids.
-Chandra
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Subject: RE: Whats you oldest computer
On Wednesday, August 08, 2001 1:25 AM, Eric Dittman
[SMTP:dittman@dittman.net] wrote:
So would I.. My great-uncle holds a patent on the gyro system used in
them.
On second thought, no. He'll launch into his usual tirade about how GD
screwed
him on his later patent on night vision systems..
Jim
My oldest is a
Minuteman missile guidance computer from 1961. Rumor
has it there is 10k of 12 bit words of storage available on the
fixed
head hard disk. Next oldest is a Imlac PDS-1, circa 1970. After
that,
a Scelbi 8H, 1974.
I'd be interested in pictures of the Minuteman missile guidance
computer, esp. ones of a hard drive that can take that kind of
stress.
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net 
7:59 a.m.
Jim Tuck wrote:
On Wednesday, August 08, 2001 1:25 AM, Eric Dittman
[SMTP:dittman@dittman.net] wrote:
So would I.. My great-uncle holds a patent on the gyro system used in
them.
Right now the computer is in Iowa, and I'm in Missouri. But I'll bring
it back, next trip. The gyro "stabile platform" used classified
technology and had been removed before the computers were surplussed
out to universities. I'll have pictures, but it may be a month or so.
-- John Tinker
My oldest
is a Minuteman missile guidance computer from 1961. Rumor
has it there is 10k of 12 bit words of storage available on the
fixed
head hard disk. Next oldest is a Imlac PDS-1, circa 1970. After
that,
a Scelbi 8H, 1974.
I'd be interested in pictures of the Minuteman missile guidance
computer, esp. ones of a hard drive that can take that kind of
stress.
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net
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