[R-390] Lincoln Project/ Radio Mart

[Roy Morgan]

At 02:26 PM 3/20/2006, Cecil Acuff wrote:
>MIT had a Lincoln Laboratory back during the 60's and 70's used for the 
>development of Radar in conjunction with the military....

>>
>Does anybody know what the " Lincoln Project " was?
>
>Radiomart has a radio on eBay he declares is from the
>Lincoln Project. Item 9700253375


I believe that MIT's Lincols Laboratory at least started at Lincoln, 
Mass.  My memory is fading (I grew up in Mass) but Hanscom Air Force Base 
is located a few miles northeast of Lincoln, MA between Concord and 
Lexington.  Here is a little about the relationship between Lilncoln Labs 
and MITRE.:
From:
http://www.mitre.org/about/index.html
"MITRE was formed in 1958 as a not-for-profit corporation under the 
leadership of C.W. Halligan. In the beginning, several hundred employees 
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratories came 
to MITRE to create new technology for the Department of 
Defense­specifically the Semi-Automated Ground Environment, which used 
brand new digital computers. ..."

About 1980, MITRE (MIT REsearch) was located near MIT in Cambridge 
Mass.  Now, they seem to have two locations, one in Bedford, Ma and one in 
McLean, VA.

BUT, It may have been on another list I read that Lincoln AFB in Nebraska 
is the likely reference for this R-390A.  It was a SAC base and had an 
Atlas ICBM installation (for a relatively short time). For more, see:
http://www.strategic-air-command.com/bases/Lincoln_AFB.htm
or:
http://www.geocities.com/atlas_missile/Lincoln_AFB.htm


Roy

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