On Wed, 2021-01-06 at 08:52 +0000, Ed Groenenberg via cctalk wrote: > It can be debated of the price for the Bendix is high or not, but it is truly > a nice > and rare machine. And by the looks of it, it seems to be complete too. > Not sure tough if the rack on the right belongs to it. > > I hope it ends up in a proper museum and hopefully it can be > displayed in running condition.
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA has one, but it's not in operating order.I don't know whether they have a mag tape drive. G-15 was the first machine I used, at the Summer Science Program, in Ojai, CA in 1963. We used it to calculate asteroid positions on photographic plates, prior to computing orbit elements -- which we did by hand on Monroe and Friden calculators. Several years ago, I wrote an emulator for Intercom-1000. It's at http://vandyke.mynetgear.com/1401/G15. UCLA used at least one G15 to syntax check Fortran programs before they were submitted to the 7094. Highway departments used them for years because Bendix provided cut- and-cover software. The software might have been developed by a highway department in Australia.
