I’m fairly sure there was one at University of Texas Center for Space Research, circa 1980 (+/- a year or 4). It would have been in a separate room from the PDP-11 I normally used. I got to “fly” a space-suit with a manned maneuvering unit around a wire-frame space shuttle representation on it for about 3 minutes. I turned upside down, and everyone thought I was out of control, but I sailed right in through the cargo bay air-lock door as planned. The author of the sim shrugged, and commented, “I guess in space, nobody knows if you are upside down."
> On Apr 22, 2020, at 5:54 PM, Randy Dawson via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > > Hi Emanuel, > > I remember them well, I was their manufacturer's rep in Houston, and sold > several to petrochem, NASA and universities. > > It was a big ticket item, selling for upwards of 40K when loaded up with all > the options. > > NASA was using it for animation, the petrochem guys for geology > visualizations in oil exportation. A&M bought one for LANDSAT imagery. > > I see if I can find some old ads, they were in the IEEE computer graphics > mags quite a bit. > > Randy > > ________________________________ > From: cctech <[email protected]> on behalf of emanuel stiebler > via cctech <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 12:27 PM > To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only <[email protected]> > Subject: Grinnell Systems > > Hi all, > was just fishing in old memories & graphics systems. We had in the > 1980's a big fridge from Grinnell Systems as a frame buffer on a 11/34. > > Anybody remember those? Links to any documentation? > > Cheers!
