> 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
