I just read further down the USS Missouri website and they have a picture of the UYK-20 with the front panel open you can clearly see the programmer's panel. It's at <
http://www.kh6bb.org/photos.html> and about 1/3 of the way down the page.
At 08:35 PM 10/18/02 -0400, you wrote:
>> They look pretty interesting! One of the pictures I Googled shows a
>> programmers console (with blinkenlights) in the door. From the lights I would
>> guess its a 16 bit mini...
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>Most AN/UYKs are Univacs of some sort. I think the AN/UYK-20 was replaced
>by the AN/UYK-44 in Naval service.
Close, the AN/UYK-43 replaced the UYK-7s and UYK-20s.
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>It is likely that these -20s were used in fire control duties, or
>possibly for target designation.
According to the hits that I got when I did a Google search they were used for fire control for some gun systems including the 5" guns. They were also used for the AEGIS system which IIRC is an anti-ship missile. They were also used as part of the radio systems and I think for some other systems.
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>> If there end up being several, I would be very interesed in one...
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>I would also be interested in one of these machines.
Sounds like I better grab all of them that I can get!
Joe
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>William Donzelli
>aw288_at_osfn.org
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Received on Fri Oct 18 2002 - 20:04:01 BST