Stuff I found at Dayton

From: John Ruschmeyer <jruschme_at_hiway1.exit109.com>
Date: Tue May 18 13:51:14 1999

> And my best find of all: a virtually mint, seemingly unused HP9000/300
> computer with 7958B hard drive (150 Mb IIRC) and 9144A 16-track tape drive.
> A label on the 98574 CPU module indicated it's been upgraded to a 375 which
> is just about the ultimate of the 300-series. A 68030 processor running at
> 50MHz and 16 Mb of RAM. Nice!
>
> My new 9000/375 system was built into a 19" rack enclosure which was in
> turn bolted into a fiberglas transit case about 3' tall, 2' wide by about
> 2.5' deep. It was part of a military surplus system. I did not get a chance
> to find the AN system designation on the rack or case, just that it weighed
> 97 pounds and required two persons to carry.

US Army Maneuver Control System, Version 10. The box you have was box #2
of what would have bene configured as a 3-box or 6-box set.

Other boxes included one which held the monitor (and doubled as a desk),
the communications processor, and the powersupply. If you look, you should
find a tag from either Loral or Ford Aerospace, as they were the MCS version
10 contractor.
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