Singer

From: Geoff Roberts <geoffrob_at_stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au>
Date: Mon Apr 16 20:44:40 2001

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 11:01 AM
Subject: RE: Singer


> Last I heard the US Navy had the same P-# Orion simulators up at
Keflavik.
> They did when I was stationed there from 80 to 82 and I was surprised
to
> hear that they are still there.

My understanding from speaking to the 'locals' is that it's still
easier/cheaper to keep it going in its present form than to rehash it
to work on something more modern/compact, since it would require new
interface hardware, as
modern machines don't have the bus support for the existing interfaces.
(IIRC, UNIBUS cards
control the simulator hardware) The software would also require
significant re-writing to correctly drive
new hardware, not to mention the design cost of the new interfaces
themselves. Way cheaper to just
keep it going.

Cheers

Geoff
Received on Mon Apr 16 2001 - 20:44:40 BST