[Boatanchors] IBM Selectric Terminal

[Glenn Little WB4UIV]

The MARDAN computer used to interface to the SINS (Ships Inertial 
Navigation System) used a rotating drum memory and used a Selectric 
as an output device.
I do not remember what MARDAN stands for.

73
Glenn
WB4UIV


At 12:30 PM 12/27/2010, rbethman wrote:
>Jim,
>
>Did you ever have any direct contact with the "rotating drum" memory
>debacle?
>
>It was a REAL, run, duck, and cover!
>
>Bob - N0DGN
>
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