My first, the Philco Ford 1000. Circa 1976, NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex.
The Philcos ran Missile Warning, Delta, 425L, Space Track and other missions (classified). We also had the bigger Philco 2000's but I can't find any pictures for them.
These were replaced with Honeywell 6080's and Level 66's starting in 1979.
Gosh, where are they all now?
When I first moved up to the Philly area in 1986, I was using one of the very first Compaq 386 boxes. 16 mhz. 1 meg ram. EGA monitor. 40 meg hard drive. Tape backup. Quadlaser printer. Seven grand in mid-eighties dollars.
I look at what you can get for under a grand now and just marvel. Heck, you can get an eight-gig thumb drive for five bucks. I still remember the first time I heard 'gigabyte' and thinking, whoa, that is a lot of data. Now you can blow that out in a minute of downloading.
