Corrections to trivia

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Wed Oct 7 09:30:36 1998

On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:

> Also if anything any of the guys here that were in the military will
> tell you while the F14 CADC or other hardware were at one time advaced
> they also tended to stay in service for many years after the commercial
> space caught up and passed it!

According to research done, there are still 55 F14A's (the model with the
Holt CADC) in the fleet that are scheduled to be retrofitted with a more
modern computer (whatever that may be).

Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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