On 01/11/2017 06:58 AM, Erik Baigar wrote:
Hi Jon,
thanks for your mail - the Alert looks interesting (I also
collect such
vintage Ex-MIL gear).
I have a Honeywell Alert. It is a 24-bit aircraft
computer that was originally designed for the X-15 project.
It was the 2nd "mass-produced" computer in the US to use
ICs. The first was the Apollo Guidance Computer.
Do you have got any pictures of the unit and the CPU card
set?
Of course it uses core memory, right?
I should take some pics. I have a set of EMM core units in
a matching 1/2 ATR box that I'm pretty sure went with it.
Apparently on mission critical applications, they used BiAx
which was non-destructive readout.
I managed to get history of the project documents from
Honeywell that document the whole project, too!
Jon
