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>   OK trivia buffs: what kind of computers (manufacturer, operating
> system, etc.) do they have in the LCC and launch pedestal?
> 
> Cheers,
>   Lindsay
> 
> Lindsay Cleveland  (akgua!glc) (404) 447-3909   Cornet 583-3909
> AT&T Technologies/Bell Laboratories ... Atlanta, Ga

I have not been to KSC, but I believe the majority of main machines are a
combination of IBM 370-class machines running a home grown system and
several hundred MODCOMP-IIs, IVs, and CLASSICs running different versions
of the MAX operating system.  There are a few PDP-11s and VAX/VMS systems,
some VARIAN 620f and Univacs V73s and 1100s.

By the way, I was at the ACM booth at SIGGRAPH, and there is an excellent
article in a recent issue of the Annuals of Computing on NASA space
computers.  It mentions the use of magnetic tape drives at a time when
everybody else is using disk drives.


--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Research Center
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