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detourdog • today at 1:23 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Autonetics designed the inertial guidance system for the Minuteman 1 ICBM. They also sold it as a general purpose computer and distributed to Universities to learn about general purpose computers.

It took realtime input from gyroscopes and starmaps and calculated output for the thrusters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-17B


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echoangle • today at 1:34 PM

Then my Desktop PC is a Robot too... It needs to be versatile in it's actual physical function, not how the individual components can also be used.

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squidmaster • today at 1:33 PM

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