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Puzzle Series: What is this, or what do you want it to be?
11 responses to “What’s That? (48)”
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Hmm.., so that’s what those look like from the underside.
I know what it is, but I’d like it to be a piece of one of the Apollo mission crafts. It looks like it could have been found rotating in space (or rotating space itself).
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An MRI scanner tube?
Or a Minuteman I missile guidance computer that you saw at the Art of the start conference at the Computer History Museum?
"This section of a Minuteman I missile guidance computer is a 24-bit serial minicomputer that controlled an on-board inertial guidance system. Previous missiles were guided by ground-based computers that communicated using a radio link, but since atomic explosions in the atmosphere could disrupt radio communications there was a need to develop a computer small enough to be housed in the rocket itself. The computer also performed diagnostic checks on the rocket system as it waited in the launch silo."
More information at Wikipedia
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Bingo JKaljundi, a new winner… with the most precise and correct answer ever… and from Estonia no less. This is a cross section of a Minuteman I missile guidance computer.
Your quote comes from the Computer History Museum site. Is that how you figured out what this is?
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So much for assumptions. I thought it was the inside or underside of an old cylindrical Cray like this:
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Wow…. that does deserve some respect. What a stellar guess…no pun intended. See, it helps to look at other things besides the image, doesn’t it?
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