I can not think of a worse computer to do radar data analysis. Do you mean System/360?
Still, Boca Raton was a S/3 stronghold. -- Will 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 > >
