NORAD 1962

[denverpilot]

Grease pencils for orbit tracking, Philco 2000, etc.

 

[kayoh190]

Interesting video. Strange that they didn't mention this anywhere:

I guess that came later, though.

 

[denverpilot]

“A strange game. The only winning move, is not to play.”

 

[Omalley1537]

“A strange game. The only winning move, is not to play.”

“Global thermonuclear war”
“How about a nice game of chess?”

 

[35 AoA]

hah, also as an aside, Allie Sheedy was at her prime.....downhill from there

 

[murphey]

Interesting video. Strange that they didn't mention this anywhere:

I guess that came later, though.

The producers went to Cray and asked to use one of their computers. Got turned down, hence they invented the art-deco WOPR. Burger King went crazy.

 

[nauga]

The producers went to Cray and asked to use one of their computers. Got turned down, hence they invented the art-deco WOPR. Burger King went crazy.

The Charles Bronson movie "Raid on Entebbe" used Douglas Aircraft's Telemetry Data Center (where engineers monitored flight tests in real-time) as the raid command center. In 1977 it looked modern and high-tech. By 1988 it looked...tired. It's torn down now, and is in the best shape I've ever seen.

Nauga,
who looked tired then too

 

[3393RP]

Row upon row of 3420 tape drives and 3350 disk drives.

I think the 3350 stored something like 320MB.

 

[deonb]

“A strange game. The only winning move, is not to play.”

Yeah, it's like soccer.