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John R. Carroll[_3_]

wrote:
On Apr 8, 1:31 pm, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:
"John R. Carroll" fired this volley
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A number of data acquisition and control systems
(which included no computers) were built for NASA installations."

Hmmm... that's odd. I bought it at the cape at an auction. It was
specifically listed as "Apollo launch control 'system'".

I can assure you it wasn't a data-acquisition system. It really was a
full-up computer.

LLoyd

I have no doubt that it was a full up computer. And can easily
believe it was sold as an " Apollo launch control ' system ' ". But
the RCA 110A computers were the launch computers. They had no
integrated circuits and were bigger at least physically. They were
also 24 bit machines. As I recall they had 8 banks of 8K words.

The big push for computers came from IBM and payroll processing long before
the space program.

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John R. Carroll