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From: "William Donzelli" <wdonze...@gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic
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Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: XH558 - was Re: using new technology
etc
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.
DEC architecture machines were in the serious
minority when it came to
military computers in combat service. DG/Rolm was
huge, as was Univac.
IBM, Burroughs, and CDC had a slice of the market
as well.
--
Will
----- Reply -----
Don't forget Cromemco:
From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromemco
In 1981 a study was commissioned by the United
States Air Force Systems Command to select a
microcomputer for theTheater Air Control System
(TACS). From a field of 149 microcomputers the
Final Technical Report concluded that “the
equipment offered by Cromemco is the most
responsive to the general selection criteria.”[31]
In the years following this study the United
States Air Force became a major customer for
Cromemco computers.[32] [33]
Cromemco developed a special version of the CS-200
computer (called the CS-250) to meet the
requirements of the Air Force's Mission Support
System (MSS). The CS-250 had a removable hard disk
based on patented Cromemco technology[34]The
United States Air Force deployed 600 Cromemco
Systems from 1985 to 1996 as Mission Support
Systems for the F-15, F-16, and F-111
aircraft.[35][36] These systems received their
first war time use in Operation Desert Storm in
1991.[37]
