Burroughs AN/FST-2 Coordinate Data Transmitting Set
The Burroughs AN/FST-2 Coordinate Data Transmitting Set (CDTS) was a
Ent AFB, 1963 Chidlaw Building, and the 1966 Cheyenne Mountain Complex). The AN/FST-2A included 2 vacuum tube computers and accepted 14 input signals (32 inputs for transistorized AN/FST-2B sets).[5]
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 "AN/FST-2 in SAGE System" | |
| AN/FST-2 data flow to AN/FSQ-7 | |
| end view of racks | |
| OA-1204 & -367 consoles |
References
- ^ History of Strategic and Ballistic Missile Defense, 1945-1955: Volume I (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-11-10. Retrieved 2013-02-23.
- ^ Gray, George (March 1999). "Some Burroughs Transistor Computers". Unisys History Newsletter. 3 (1). Archived from the original on October 1, 2016.
The Burroughs Great Valley Research Laboratory at Paoli outside Philadelphia… When the system was complete, 134 of these data communications devices had been installed.
- ^ "AN/FST-2, RADAR Data Processor/Network System". Williamson-Labs.com. Retrieved 2013-01-24.
took raw analog radar data, along with operator overlaid masking (editing), digitized it, and placed it on voice grade toll telephone lines. … The AN/FST-2 used about 8000 vacuum tubes in three bays of racks.
- ^ "AN/FST-2 Radar Data Processing System". Retrieved 2013-01-24.
Each system processes data all the time but only the active system transmits data to the direction center and controls the height finder radar. … Data was [digitized] in quarter mile increments. One radar quarter mile was 3.09 microseconds.
- ^ "Transmitting Set Coordinate Data". Radar.tpub.com. 1965-12-15. Archived from the original on July 30, 2012. Retrieved 2018-02-02.
External links
- W. A. Ogletree; H. W. Taylor; E. W. Veitch; J. Wylen. AN/FST-2 Radar-Processing Equipment for SAGE (PDF). Eastern Joint Computer Conference.