I know that SUADPS as a whole is just now being phased out,
but if the use of the DPS-6 to run it continued into the 90's, I
would imagine it was just into the early, possibly mid 90's. The
last incarnation I used was run on UNIX from micro's, though it still
looked exactly the same from a user's standpoint. I never got to
play Star Trek on the Harris systems, but the Honeywell, as used for
SUADPS, had a nice version of it. It wasn't accessible by the
general user though. It had a bug in it that allowed you to create
energy, instead of using it, by simply putting in a large negative
warp factor and moving even one sector over.
Jeff
> > Pretty cool article on the Apollo guidance system. Whle
>> we're on the topic of Honeywell computers....does anyone recall which
>> model Honeywell was used onboard USN ships into the 80's for the
>> SUADPS system? Or for that matter, which Harris mini was used for
>> the USN SNAP-II?
>>
>> thanks
>> Jeff
>
>The Honeywell was the DPS-6, and it was into the 90's. I think the Harris
>was the H500 or H550. The main thing I can remember about the Harris was
>that it had 4 80MB 8" Hard Drives. Somewhere I've got a binder with
>printouts of all the online doc's on the Harris.
>
>What I want is a copy of the one Star Trek game that ran on the Harris! I
>barely remember it, but it was the coolist text based ST game I've seen, and
>wasn't one of the 10x10 grid games. Also had probably the best version of
>Zork.
>
> Zane
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