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The D-17B (D17B) computer was used in the Minuteman I NS-1OQ missile guidance system. The complete guidance system contained a D-17B computer, the associated stable platform, and power supplies . The D-17B weighed approximately 62 pounds (28 kg), contained 1,521 transistors , 6,282 diodes , 1,116 capacitors , and 5094 resistors .
ASC-15 digital computer. The ASC-15 (Advance System Controller Model 15) was a digital computer developed by International Business Machines (IBM) for use on the Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). [1] [2] It was subsequently modified and used on the Titan III and Saturn I Block II launch vehicles.
Autonetics was a division of North American Aviation that produced various avionics but is best known for their inertial navigation systems used in submarines and intercontinental ballistic missiles. Its 188-acre facility in Anaheim, California , with 36,000 employees, [ year needed ] was the city's largest employer. [ 1 ]
1957 - Launch of the first ICBM, the USSR's R-7 (8K71), known to NATO as the SS-6 Sapwood. 1957 - The USSR launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite. 1958 - The U.S. launches Explorer 1, the first American artificial satellite, on a Jupiter-C rocket. 1958 - US launches their first ICBM, the Atlas-B (the Atlas-A was a test article only).
Some of the earliest computers were military computers. Military requirements for portability and ruggedness led to some of the earliest transistorized computers, such as the 1958 AN/USQ-17, the 1959 AN/MYK-1 (), the 1960 M18 FADAC, and the 1962 D-17B; the earliest integrated-circuit based computer, the 1964 D-37C; as well as one of the earliest laptop computers, the 1982 Grid Compass.
The ITT 465L Strategic Air Command Control System (SACCS, SAC Control System, 465L Project, [1] 465L Program) was a Cold War "Big L" [4] network of computer and communication systems for command and control of Strategic Air Command "combat aircraft, refueling tankers, [and] ballistic missiles". [3]
The design used an improved version of the Whirlwind I magnetic core memory and was an extension of the Whirlwind II computer program, renamed AN/FSQ-7 in 1953 to comply with Air Force nomenclature. It has been suggested the FSQ-7 was based on the IBM 701 but, while the 701 was investigated by MIT engineers, its design was ultimately rejected ...
His first models were designed in the early 1930s, but in 1932 his first version of the E-6B, originally known as the "Dalton Dead Reckoning Computer", came into existence. [ 2 ] On October 30, 1940, Dalton was recalled to active duty and assigned to Naval Air Station Anacostia , across the river from Washington, DC, to help train naval aviators.