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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
There may well have been some computers used in the production of the SR-71, I don't know that just a guess. They sure as heck were very primitive number crunchers nothing like the CAD design computers used in aerospace design currently.
They had some real super computers with 4 or 8 KB of core memory back then. Zero graphics, just numbers.
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They had access to an IBM 700 series mainframe through their engine partner, Pratt & Whitney, but I don't know if they used it much. Back in Burbank, the slide rule was king.
JR