I have a National Geographic somewhere on my shelf that has an article about remote sensing and I vividly recall at least one interior shot of the U.S. government aircraft used to gather the imagery for the article; it was fitted with a bunch of operator workstations for the folks operating the various sensor platforms and I could swear the stations were built around something in a BA23 ... probably a VAX given the vintage of the article ... I'll have to see if I can find the picture real quick & I'll try to scan it up.
Best, Sean On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 6:08 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
