Brian Keith Posted March 3, 2009 Share #1 Posted March 3, 2009 What have we here, an old dusty crate. I wonder what's in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Keith Posted March 3, 2009 Author Share #2 Posted March 3, 2009 Lid off, more dust, and some wheel thing on top, lets see what is under this lid. A bunch of these things in the original box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Keith Posted March 3, 2009 Author Share #3 Posted March 3, 2009 Box says: COMPUTER; TRUE AIRSPEED TYPE G-1 SPECIFICATION NO. 27367-A MANUFACTURER'S DRAWING No. A-22262-C ORDER No. 42-18050-P CROWE NAME PLATE & MFG. CO. CHICAGO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pconrad02 Posted March 3, 2009 Share #4 Posted March 3, 2009 They look like they must be UNIX.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamski Posted March 3, 2009 Share #5 Posted March 3, 2009 Great find! Garcia Aviation has had those for sale for quite a while (I got mine about 15 years ago). Great display items!! -Ski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_Nek Posted March 4, 2009 Share #6 Posted March 4, 2009 Are they Windows Vista compatible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandon_rss18 Posted March 4, 2009 Share #7 Posted March 4, 2009 Are they Windows Vista compatible? They HAVE to be Apple OS X, if they were Windows related they would not have lasted this long, and the aircrew couldnt afford crashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Bibliotecario Posted March 4, 2009 Share #8 Posted March 4, 2009 I was initally flummoxed when I saw the crate photo--I was expecting something a little bigger. Thirty years ago I served briefly with an old warrant officer who had been at either Edgewood Arsenal or Aberdeen Proving Ground (I forget which) during the war. He said the computer the army was using at the time filled a building the size of a two story residential house. I'm not sure, but I think it was used to produce ballistic tables. It would typically compute for no more than a few minutes before one of its thousands of vacuum tubes would burn out and it would go down. He stated it had about the same capacity as a 1970s pocket calculator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted March 4, 2009 Share #9 Posted March 4, 2009 Well, you've got plenty of trading material for next oh... 150 years! Seriously, how many are in there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Keith Posted March 4, 2009 Author Share #10 Posted March 4, 2009 The computer jokes are probably pretty good, if I knew enough about "modern" computers to get them! The crate was about 3/4 full when I bought it, and there were just over 100 in it. I think it must have held 125 originally. There are no markings on the crate. Paper labels have been removed. El B- that is a great story about the WW II electronic computer. I have no doubt it is true. The tremendous spending on research during WW II laid the ground work for the good years of the US for decades! At the same auction I got this crate, I got components of WW II fax machines, TV electronics and a bunch of radar electronics, bought surplus post war. BKW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Bibliotecario Posted March 4, 2009 Share #11 Posted March 4, 2009 The computer jokes are probably pretty good, if I knew enough about "modern" computers to get them!The crate was about 3/4 full when I bought it, and there were just over 100 in it. I think it must have held 125 originally. There are no markings on the crate. Paper labels have been removed. El B- that is a great story about the WW II electronic computer. I have no doubt it is true. The tremendous spending on research during WW II laid the ground work for the good years of the US for decades! At the same auction I got this crate, I got components of WW II fax machines, TV electronics and a bunch of radar electronics, bought surplus post war. BKW I'm not trying to quibble, only to learn. Were they FAX machines, or teletype machines? As for TV, a few months back I saw the remains of the TV guidance equipment for a WW2 glider bomb, but it had apparently ridden the bomb down to the target--it was pretty beat up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigredone Posted March 4, 2009 Share #12 Posted March 4, 2009 I saw a homemade leather holster for one of those discs. I guess the navigator wore his like stork from animal house wore his slide rule. Post your extras under the vintage computer section of Ebay. I'd bet there's more interest there than in the WW2 section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigredone Posted March 4, 2009 Share #13 Posted March 4, 2009 There were fax machines since the 30s. Newspapers used them to transmit photos. A rotating drum held the original and an electric typewriter reassembled the image using keyboard characters. I remember over 30 years ago there were calendars printed out by computer on old green bar paper. It has the calendar with a picture of the mona lisa made the same way as the old fax machines. John I'm not trying to quibble, only to learn. Were they FAX machines, or teletype machines? As for TV, a few months back I saw the remains of the TV guidance equipment for a WW2 glider bomb, but it had apparently ridden the bomb down to the target--it was pretty beat up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted March 5, 2009 Share #14 Posted March 5, 2009 There were fax machines since the 30s. Newspapers used them to transmit photos. A rotating drum held the original and an electric typewriter reassembled the image using keyboard characters. I remember over 30 years ago there were calendars printed out by computer on old green bar paper. It has the calendar with a picture of the mona lisa made the same way as the old fax machines. John Back in the 1940's these were apparently referred to as "wire photos". I believe I have even heard the term "UPI Wire Photo" in my lifetime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airgunner Posted March 5, 2009 Share #15 Posted March 5, 2009 Don't know what your plans are, but I would be interested in purchasing a couple if you should decide to sell some... Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoubleTap Posted March 6, 2009 Share #16 Posted March 6, 2009 Very interesting! Not what I expected, given the title.. but true nonetheless. Amazing how the word has evolved over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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