Speed now & then (Space and time?)
    Mark Linimon 
    linimon at lonesome.com
       
    Thu Mar 29 22:11:03 CDT 2018
    
    
  
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 04:05:10PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> And yet, productive work was performed on it.  Indeed the industrial
> variant, the 1710 was used for early process control.
There were a lot of highway improvements made in the US in the 1950s/
1960s using Bendix G-15s.  That particular branch of civil engineering
was probably that machine's biggest customer.  (OTOH, disclaimer: the
one I used in high school had previously been owned by an oil company.)
mcl
    
    
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