Whats you oldest computer

From: John Tinker <jtinker_at_coin.org>
Date: Wed Aug 8 11:59:23 2001

Jim Tuck wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, August 08, 2001 1:25 AM, Eric Dittman
> [SMTP:dittman_at_dittman.net] wrote:
> > > My oldest is a Minuteman missile guidance computer from 1961. Rumor
> > > has it there is 10k of 12 bit words of storage available on the
> > > fixed
> > > head hard disk. Next oldest is a Imlac PDS-1, circa 1970. After
> > > that,
> > > a Scelbi 8H, 1974.
> >
> > I'd be interested in pictures of the Minuteman missile guidance
> > computer, esp. ones of a hard drive that can take that kind of
> > stress.
> > --
> > Eric Dittman
> > dittman_at_dittman.net
>
> So would I.. My great-uncle holds a patent on the gyro system used in
> them.

Right now the computer is in Iowa, and I'm in Missouri. But I'll bring
it back, next trip. The gyro "stabile platform" used classified
technology and had been removed before the computers were surplussed
out to universities. I'll have pictures, but it may be a month or so.

-- John Tinker
Received on Wed Aug 08 2001 - 11:59:23 BST