Here's the picture if anyone's interested; it turns out that the issue is from 1993:
http://wildflower.diablonet.net/~scaron/aerialBA23.jpg This may have actually been a University operated project; I don't believe it's actually a military aircraft ... but I see at least one BA23 in the cabin :O I believe the aircraft is a DC-8. Best, Sean On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Sean Caron <sca...@umich.edu> wrote: > 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 > > >