| 12/10/2011 |
Added a new type of IBM read-only storage:
Balanced Capacitor ROS as used on the System/360 Mod 50.
Added a new
Farrand sighting mechanism (pictures only for now, text to come soon).
It is not clear (to me) whether this is part of a bombsight or a navigation computer.
Added the sighting head to the
A-4 "Gun Bomb Rocket" Sight (the computing component was already in the museum).
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| 11/27/2011 |
Added a great new device: a
Fairchild A-4 Line-of-Position Computer.
Also updated the name and text for the
Bendix MG-1 Central Air Data Computer.
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| 11/14-16/2011 |
Did some cleanup in Old Military section;
it now has an index to its contents.
Added some text and more pictures to one of our most interesting and rare devices,
the B-36 A-1A Bomb Release Computer.
Added a APA-16 Radar Bombsight Controller.
Also added a new IBM control panel.
Added a IBM model 10 keypunch
and some modern IBM control panels.
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| 11/1/2011 |
Added several miscellaneous items that were collecting dust in the back room.
In some cases I've just added the pictures; the text will come later.
A particularly nice item is a massive control panel from a
Honeywell Multics mainframe.
Another very interesting item is a tester for the
Titan IV ICBM (serial number 1!).
The tester for the
B-29 Central Station Fire Control computer was added to that section.
(Also, updated the K3 gunsight
section showing our multiple devices.)
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| 6/1/2011 |
Added miscellaneous old military stuff that was laying around. We now have the sighting head for our
T1A bombsight.
We've added some components from a M1 Toss Bomb Computer.
Also, a Mk23 Bombsight sighting component.
Also, the controller for an AN/ASA-24 Navigation Computer
Also, a subassembly from an AN/MSQ-1 Radar Tracking Subassembly
Also, a Variable Gunsight Head controller.
Also, a Mk18 Gunsight along with several accessories..
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| 4/11/2011 |
Some new IBM items added: Some System/360
control storage components with lots of text, and a System/360
Model 30 console with no text yet (some coming soon).
Also a new CSI Analog Computer added with no text yet.
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| 3/27/2011 |
Some new IBM items added: A cool
IBM Magnetostrictive (wire) Memory and more
card equipment plugboards (as well as more text about our card equipment).
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| 11/2/2010 |
Over last 2 weeks I've done cleanup on the site (spelling, typos, missing pics, etc.)
as well as dumped a lot of pics into "incoming" categories under components, and ibm.
A couple of items got text, but most of these new items are just pics for now.
Here are some minor new items:
an Sperry A-5 autopilot control panel (under the S-1 Bombsight),
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| 10/19/2010 |
A new Sperry T-1A Bombsight
unit has been acquired to go with the previous unit. While similar, there are some minor differences betwenn the two.
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| 10/18/2010 |
A complete Sperry S-1 Bombsight
(World War II) has been acquired to go with the previous disassembled S-1.
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| 10/15/2010 |
A major new encryption item added: a Russian Fialka
encryption machine
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| 10/07/2010 |
New pictures added to various categories (there are hundreds of museum items not yet shown
& I'm gradually going to add pictures first, then text), and a major new item added, an
IBM 705 Console
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| 9/28/2010 |
Minor editing and two new pictures in
B61 Preflight Controller
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| 8/16/2010 |
New later military entry created for
Canadian Artillery Controller.
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| 8/11/2010 |
Two new components added in old military:
B-1 Bombsight Stabilizer and
B-29 Pedestal Gunsight.
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| 8/05/2010 |
Minor ibm editing & pictures for some IBM plugboards
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| 8/04/2010 |
New placeholder entry created for IBM 3420 tape Drive.
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| 8/03/2010 |
New entry created for
3-D Gyro Navigation Device
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| 8/03/2010 |
ibm category updated for (1) new pictures of 9020 console
& (2) placeholder entries for some more IBM equipment: one picture, no text (yet).
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| 7/28/2010 |
New old military entry created for
A-4 gun-bonb-rocket sight, minor edits to this done all week long.
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| 7/26/2010 |
New top-level topic created for B61 Preflight Controller",
edits to this done all week long.
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| 7/26/2010 |
After a year of ad hoc & desultory updating, I'm trying to get organized; so I'm starting this change log.
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