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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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Darn, my best buddies dad worked on the SR-71... his dad is now RIP or I would ask him.
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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_700/7000_series
Vacuum tube mainframes. In the pure sense of definition of the word computer, yep they were state of the art computers. With a speed so slow that they are off the scale so slow and predate any measurement or comparison to a computer of today.
I would love to figure out a valid comparison of the computing power of the 700 series room size computer to a iPhone 6s with 128 Gig of memory.
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Dunno if this is true but I heard that a modern cell phone has more computing power that the early space shuttle.