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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/UP8/statuses/113595094503165555">Paul Houle (up8@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 23:47:09 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@UP8" title="up8@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/133441-48-20231112180427.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Paul Houle" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Paul Houle</a></section><article><p>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</p><p><a href="https://srmsc.org/ref1040.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://srmsc.org/ref1040.html</a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computers" rel="tag">#computers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" rel="tag">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/missiles" rel="tag">#missiles</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/abm" rel="tag">#abm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/military" rel="tag">#military</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/minicomputer" rel="tag">#minicomputer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" rel="tag">#technology</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4122027#notice-8054728">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-12-04T23:47:09+09:00" title="Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 23:47:09 JST">Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 23:47:09 JST</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@UP8/113595094503165555" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@UP8/113595094503165555">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3628182">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.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/595/082/384/532/344/original/bb4b5086c183cff7.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/595/082/384/532/344/original/bb4b5086c183cff7.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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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
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