The PDP-3, Stealth, and the Design of the Blackbird

I'd made some inquiries here about the PDP-3. I found a
number of sources who'd worked with it and I was able to include
about a page on it in my book which AIAA is publishing at the
end of this month:

http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=360&id=1789

The machine was used to process radar cross section measurement
data taken on the models for the Lockheed Blackbird at Area 51.
By the time it was running, it had diverged pretty far from the
original architectural spec from DEC.

I was never able to find out what happened to it. Gordon Bell
told me that he wasn't sure about the statement in his textbook
that it had ended up in Oregon.

Cheers,

Paul Suhler

(Paul A. Suhler) wrote:

I'd made some inquiries here about the PDP-3. I found a
number of sources who'd worked with it and I was able to include
about a page on it in my book which AIAA is publishing at the
end of this month:

http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=360&id=1789

The machine was used to process radar cross section measurement
data taken on the models for the Lockheed Blackbird at Area 51.
By the time it was running, it had diverged pretty far from the
original architectural spec from DEC.

I was never able to find out what happened to it. Gordon Bell
told me that he wasn't sure about the statement in his textbook
that it had ended up in Oregon.

It seems odd that Lockheed wouldn't have been able to find further use
for it...

D.
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Oct 5th, 2004 JDL

Derek Lyons wrote:
(Paul A. Suhler) wrote:

I'd made some inquiries here about the PDP-3. I found a
number of sources who'd worked with it and I was able to include
about a page on it in my book which AIAA is publishing at the
end of this month:

http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=360&id=1789

The machine was used to process radar cross section measurement
data taken on the models for the Lockheed Blackbird at Area 51.
By the time it was running, it had diverged pretty far from the
original architectural spec from DEC.

I was never able to find out what happened to it. Gordon Bell
told me that he wasn't sure about the statement in his textbook
that it had ended up in Oregon.

It seems odd that Lockheed wouldn't have been able to find further use
for it...

It was never at Lockheed, it was built and operated at SEI,
in Massachusetts. It was so badly documented that essentially
one of the builders had to help anyone trying to use it.

Paul