[Milsurplus] Computers...Yeass! ARMY COMPUTERS! early & beastly with Friden What is it?

[Mike Morrow]

WRT old out-of-use military computers, it would be an amazing achievement were it possible for some museum to find and restore the Poseidon Ballistic Missile "Digital Geo-Ballistic Missile" computer, two of which were in the Missile Control Center of each Poseidon missile submarine.  One was redundant (except when at Battle Station Missile) and could be assigned to provide the brains for the Mark 78 target motion analyzer for Battle Stations Torpedo.

The computer used on the warhead's "bus" (which navigated the bus in sub-orbit to independently target the attached individual re-entry bodies...up to 14) was very interesting as well.  No doubt there's no chance of parts of that small computer ever showing up in a civil museum even though the technology is a half-century old.

The integrated technology for the US submarine-launched ballistic missile system was stunningly magnificent for such a long time ago...the Cold War era.

Mike / KK5F
ex-USS Daniel Boone SSBN-629