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An illustration showing four system components, a flat panel long range radar at the top, a data-processing system to the upper left, a missile site radar (MSR) in the middle (the first three connected with squiggly communication lines with arrows at the end. At the bottom right a short missile (SPRINT) and a long missile (SPARTAN) are linked to the MSR with a communications link.

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An illustration showing four system components, a flat panel long range radar at the top, a data-processing system to the upper left, a missile site radar (MSR) in the middle (the first three connected with squiggly communication lines with arrows at the end. At the bottom right a short missile (SPRINT) and a long missile (SPARTAN) are linked to the MSR with a communications link.
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Paul Houle (up8@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 23:47:09 JST Paul Houle

I've had minicomputers on my mind lately, particularly the old PDP-11. I just came across a special issue of the Bell System Technical Journal about a minicomputer Bell Labs built to shoot down nuclear warheads
https://srmsc.org/ref1040.html
#computers #retrocomputing #missiles #abm #military #minicomputer #technology

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