All that remains

5 responses to “All that remains”

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   jurvetson

   Oct 20, 2009 at 1:04 am

   The "before"…peering insideand the same AFB cocktail party, the launch controller Just dial in the missile(s) to fire and jiggle the too left knob for each bank.

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   gsikich1

   Oct 20, 2009 at 2:42 am

   Great shot of the debris. Thank goodness that the system works though.

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   obskura

   Oct 20, 2009 at 7:26 am

   "This section of a Minuteman I missile guidance computer is a 24-bit serial minicomputer that controlled an on-board inertial guidance system."

   Wow, that’s quite a bunch of wires for a "mini-computer"… I love the two wires running across, ignoring all the cable ducts and the neat vibration-proof assembly of everything else…
   Of course, these days the whole thing would be the size of a coin…
   This little microcontroller costs $7.99, has 8 (!) parallel 32 bit cores and will probably compute the hell out of the minuteman computer…

   
   (Parallax)

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   Victor1

   Oct 21, 2009 at 12:26 am

   I love the glass jar, like it was a specimin collected by Eva in ‘WALL-E’ to be returned to some mothership for analysis. Cool curved bottom, eh?

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   A Tout Le Monde

   Oct 24, 2009 at 3:05 pm

   Here’s a photo of the command capsule door to a Minuteman site:
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/8344716@N03/3776636758/

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