I don't know what it is but I was at a couple of the Charlie Bell auctions. Charlie had everything under the sun! In fact, he had TWO titan missiles in the yard! He was located just outside the south gate of KSC and had been collecting stuff from there almost from the day that it was built (late 1950s). I told a friend of mine about this auction. He's going to take a look at it, he may know what it is. But unless the seller can give some evidence that it IS a computer and it IS from a rocket then I wouldn't believe a word of it! Joe At 04:30 PM 11/30/04 -0800, you wrote:

Well, it is a computer, but probably doesn't do much. Essentially, the military uses a rather loose definition when it comes to computer - even a couple of potentiometers in a box will be called a computer, if it does compute some variables. My guess that this is another "nameless*" bit of 50s and 60s aircraft gear, perhaps for drone control, or maybe a fire control system. If the tag was clearer, I could maybe tell more. Anyway, it does not look space rated. *"nameless", as a lot of this stuff had seemingly random part numbers that really didn't tell you much, and also did not get published much. I have a lot of this sort of thing, and rarely do I figure out what it goes with. William Donzelli aw288(a)osfn.org