Autonetics designed the inertial guidance system for the Minuteman 1 ICBM. They also sold it as a general purpose computer and distributed to Universities to learn about general purpose computers.

It took realtime input from gyroscopes and starmaps and calculated output for the thrusters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-17B

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echoangle an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Then my Desktop PC is a Robot too... It needs to be versatile in it's actual physical function, not how the individual components can also be used.

	▲	detourdog 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I wasn’t so much claiming it was a robot only that it was general purpose computer. Definitely a kin to a drone. Is a drone a robot?

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squidmaster an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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