Has anyone seen a good photograph of the Strela-1 computer? Big enough to use in my book. I am also trying to find this paper, but the U of Washington library and the Linda Hall library do not have it:
Базилевский Ю. Я. Универсальная электронная вычислительная машина "Стрела". Приборстроение, 1957, № 3.
Maybe this journal has a good photograph too? Strela-1 was used at KIAM to perform trajectory calculations for Luna-3, Venera-1 and many others.
Before 1953, these calculations at KIAM were done by a brigade of 100 women on mechanical calculators. NASA also did that. There is a famous paper called "When Computers were Women", about the human calculating brigades used for rocket calculations:
http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/~gdowney/courses/lis810-labor-2004-09/PDF/Light%20J%201999a.pdf
http://www.bashedu.ru/konkurs/tarhov/russian/strela.htm
http://www.computer-museum.ru/histussr/18.htm
http://codeschool.narod.ru/ch/ch5.htm
and some others sites
btw i'm living right next building of
SKB-245 (Special construction bureau 245, now - NITsEVT
- Science Institute of Digital Electronical Computing Technics) - organisation-designer of this computer.
Цитироватьhttp://www.bashedu.ru/konkurs/tarhov/russian/strela.htm
http://www.computer-museum.ru/histussr/18.htm
http://codeschool.narod.ru/ch/ch5.htm
and some others sites
btw i'm living right next building of
SKB-245 (Special construction bureau 245, now - NITsEVT
- Science Institute of Digital Electronical Computing Technics) - organisation-designer of this computer.
Thank-you, the codeschool page is new to me. Can I write to SKB-245? They must have some archival photos of Strela.
http://www.nicevt.ru/about/contact/index.html
Its contacts of НИЦЭВТ (former SKB-245)