Robert Borsuk wrote:
Does anyone know what a Com-tran Ten is? I have a set
of prints
(over 30 pages) I pulled from my filing cabinet (while looking for
Mac info for Teo and Jeff) which say they are a reprint by permission
of Digiac Corporation.
I tried doing some goggling but to no avail.
Any ideas (or links)?
Rob
I used a Com-tran Ten computer trainer while attending the US Navy's Advanced First
Term Avionics (AFTA) school in Millington, Tennessee in 1980. Our classroom time on it
was pretty limited - a week or two, at most. I vaguely recall that it was used to teach a
smattering of machine language and digital circuit fault analysis & troubleshooting.
That's about all I remember, and unfortunately I lost most of the tech pubs I had kept
from those days in a move several years ago.
If anyone else on the list attended tech school in Millington during that era, perhaps you
can answer a question I've wondered about for a while. The Navy was experimenting
with computer graded programmed instruction in the early 80s, and the machine that
processed the Scantron forms would print out a line or two of remedial info or
"attaboys" on each test report. Unfortunately, we never did get to see
"Jim-Jim", the machine which processed our grades. Does anyone know what kind
of hardware Jim-Jim was?
-Rick Kaumeier