Ack! You're right. For some reason I was thinking about the System/3 and put that down instead.
TTFN - Guy > On Jun 19, 2015, at 4:10 PM, William Donzelli <wdonze...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On thinking more - could you mean System/7? That would make sense, and > it was a Boca Raton machine as well. > > -- > Will, who would like an S/7 > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Guy Sotomayor <g...@shiresoft.com> wrote: >> >>> On Jun 19, 2015, at 3:08 PM, Brent Hilpert <hilp...@cs.ubc.ca> wrote: >>> >>> On 2015-Jun-19, at 9:07 AM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote: >>>> >>>> Bringing this topic full circle, does anyone know if any minicomputers >>>> (DEC PDP-8s or 11s, DG Novæ, HP 21XXs, et cetera) were ever used on >>>> aircraft? Not transported by one, but I mean setup and used on one. >>> >>> Another example of shipboard use: >>> >>> Quote from HP Measure Oct 1976: >>> One of the first 2116As sold is still being used aboard a research >>> vessel operated >>> by Woods Hole Institute of Oceanography in Massachusetts, which has >>> purchased >>> at least a dozen other HP computers since then. The original one still >>> works like a >>> charm ten years later-even though it's been bounced around, loaded and >>> unloaded >>> and exposed to the corrosive salt air. >>> >>> "One of the first 2116As" would place this at 1966-1967. >>> >>> A pic here shows it being craned onto the ship. >>> http://hpmemoryproject.org/news/tenyears_comp/measure_page_00.htm >> >> When I worked at IBM Boca Raton, on one of the buildings was a ship based >> radar. >> It was installed to do testing for the ship mounted System/3 that IBM sold >> at the time. >> >> TTFN - Guy >> >>
