Re: mobile minis/ Re: XH558 - was Re: using new technology etc

2015-06-19 Thread Guy Sotomayor
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

Re: mobile minis/ Re: XH558 - was Re: using new technology etc

2015-06-19 Thread William Donzelli
On thinking more - could you mean System/7? That would make sense, and it was a Boca Raton machine as well. -- Will, who would like an S/7 On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Guy Sotomayor g...@shiresoft.com wrote: On Jun 19, 2015, at 3:08 PM, Brent Hilpert hilp...@cs.ubc.ca wrote: On

Re: mobile minis/ Re: XH558 - was Re: using new technology etc

2015-06-19 Thread William Donzelli
I can not think of a worse computer to do radar data analysis. Do you mean System/360? Still, Boca Raton was a S/3 stronghold. -- Will On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Guy Sotomayor g...@shiresoft.com wrote: On Jun 19, 2015, at 3:08 PM, Brent Hilpert hilp...@cs.ubc.ca wrote: On 2015-Jun-19,

Re: mobile minis/ Re: XH558 - was Re: using new technology etc

2015-06-19 Thread Sean Caron
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