mobile minis/ Re: XH558 - was Re: using new technology etc

[Guy Sotomayor]

Ack!  You're right.  For some reason I was thinking about the System/3 and put
that down instead.

TTFN - Guy

> On Jun 19, 2015, at 4:10 PM, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On thinking more - could you mean System/7? That would make sense, and
> it was a Boca Raton machine as well.
> 
> --
> Will, who would like an S/7
> 
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jun 19, 2015, at 3:08 PM, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 2015-Jun-19, at 9:07 AM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Bringing this topic full circle, does anyone know if any minicomputers
>>>> (DEC PDP-8s or 11s, DG Novæ, HP 21XXs, et cetera) were ever used on
>>>> aircraft? Not transported by one, but I mean setup and used on one.
>>> 
>>> Another example of shipboard use:
>>> 
>>> Quote from  HP Measure Oct 1976:
>>>      One of the first 2116As sold is still being used aboard a research vessel operated
>>>      by Woods Hole Institute of Oceanography in Massachusetts, which has purchased
>>>      at least a dozen other HP computers since then. The original one still works like a
>>>      charm ten years later-even though it's been bounced around, loaded and unloaded
>>>      and exposed to the corrosive salt air.
>>> 
>>> "One of the first 2116As" would place this at 1966-1967.
>>> 
>>> A pic here shows it being craned onto the ship.
>>>      http://hpmemoryproject.org/news/tenyears_comp/measure_page_00.htm
>> 
>> When I worked at IBM Boca Raton, on one of the buildings was a ship based radar.
>> It was installed to do testing for the ship mounted System/3 that IBM sold at the time.
>> 
>> TTFN - Guy
>> 
>>