I don't think I've ever seen a manual that expected me to use DeMorgan's Theorem as part of a test procedure... :)
eventually, the company would call that a 'system design and mechanization report', which would document the math and equations needed to correctly simulate a small part of an aircraft.
note the marking "link division of general precision". the computer was made by General Precision, of which the Link aviation company was the biggest customer. i had always been told that Link purchased General Precision, but perhaps it was the other way around.
i worked in this industry for about 35 years. this stuff was ancient and forgotten about when I started.
Surely there is enough money in this city of Houston between airlines that operate here and the oil companies that they spend most of your ticket money on to keep this open?
Hopefully it can be preserved and continue it's life! There is hope: https://www.1940airterminal.org/news/texas-historical-commis...
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e52f79c0260e6...
Note the 8" floppy disk drives also.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Union_Terminal
I spent hours photographing in there last summer. Free tours available which will take you into some of the back offices with more art deco goodness.
It is unfortunate to see any museum close. I hope their assessment from the Texas Historical Commission succeeds!
> At this moment, HAHS is in default of the lease, and must vacate both the terminal building and the 1928 hangar by the end of June.
Sad :(
Me too :(
There shouldn’t be any huge expenses, unless they were leasing the premises at market rate.
image a computer display made up of 1000 line segments. that is what you would get. it was possible to buy these with an output that was not raster, rather it drew on the CRT with vector segments. incredible light points to simulate night landings.
Even if you're not into art deco architecture it's worth a visit. The Omnimax theatre is worth the trip alone, but the museums are great too.
@macintux - It's hard to get on the tour because they sell out, and they don't allow photography, but the high steel tour, which includes walking up to the top of the inside of the half dome, is great. There's some duplication with the behind the scenes tour but it's still worth it. It's probably second to the (now discontinued for liability reasons) Cincinnati subway tour in terms of seeing cool hidden stuff in the Cincinnati area.
- vertical lines == Deco
- horizontal lines == Streamline (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamline_Moderne)
