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Offline wap32

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« on: Fri, 26 November 2010, 13:42:01 »
I found the first image pretty funny. :biggrin:
The photos remind me of WarGames.

Still, how do you design a mission-critical keyboard?
Does it use two switches per key for redundancy or something? Or is it just a regular keyboard built with military-spec parts?
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« Reply #1 on: Fri, 26 November 2010, 17:36:04 »
Fortunately, it looks like the X Window System - maybe ancient fvwm - on those screens. Had the computers involved in this critical task been running Microsoft Windows, a comment to the effect of "We're all DOOOMED" would have been de rigeur at this point.

But OS/2 I could live with.
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Offline nathanscribe

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« Reply #2 on: Fri, 26 November 2010, 19:30:59 »
Quote from: wap32;252583
The photos remind me of WarGames.


That is exactly what I was thinking.  Turn the key SIR!
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« Reply #3 on: Fri, 26 November 2010, 20:08:06 »
They probably don't worry too much about keyboards, considering how reliable they are.  I bet they worry more about the complicated network of electronics and mechanics that launches the missiles, not to mention the guidance system.
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Offline ch_123

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« Reply #4 on: Sat, 27 November 2010, 05:39:25 »
Quote from: quadibloc;252735
Fortunately, it looks like the X Window System


I'm not so sure that that can be counted as 'fortunate'
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« Reply #5 on: Sat, 27 November 2010, 11:11:27 »
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Still, how do you design a mission-critical keyboard?
Does it use two switches per key for redundancy or something? Or is it just a regular keyboard built with military-spec parts?

In the late 1990s you'd put a Motorola 68030 CPU with firmware on every key, programmed to prevent keybounce and other undesirable behavior. At least this is what they did on the stealth aircraft.

Source: the man at Northrop who wrote the firmware.
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« Reply #6 on: Sun, 28 November 2010, 01:04:07 »
Newfoundland, Canada's lifeboat.  Quebec might survive but it'd sink in the Atlantic from all the poutine on board.
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