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Lunar Penguins
Of possible interest to Penguicon types: Raytheon builds space penguin robots to hop across surface of moon. As reported in Harper's Findings section and also here:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7933&feedId=online-news_rss20
http://www.raytheon.com/feature/space05_eduAlley/
(it was reported on slashdot Aug 31)
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| Date: | November 6th, 2005 09:29 pm (UTC) |
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Raytheon still exists? Wow.
My first computer-related job was operating a Raytheon 701 (anybody remember drum memory?). I practiced programming on it by punching machine languages instructions into the front panel, doing things like "if you turn this switch, make that light up."
Raytheon.
Wow.
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