retrocomputing

I stumbled across this the other day - Old DOS Never dies... ( ia801209.us.archive.org )

This should boot up on your run of the mill S-100 based system with an 8086. Maybe an 8080 too? Also, it reportedly runs under #simH as a virtual machine. According to some, this is the earliest known version of #86-DOS, not long after replacing #QDOS as its successor....

Inside the Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight ( www.righto.com )

"Different Globus units needed to be built for different orbits. Moreover, this design only handles circular orbits, making it useless during orbit changes such as rendezvous and docking. These were such significant limitations that some cosmonauts wanted the Globus removed from the control panel, but it remained until it was...

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