On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Eric Dittman wrote:
> 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.
if its a D17B it has 5454 24 bit words on its disk. (24 bit instruction
word)
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.
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Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net
Peter Wallace