X-Nico

British Aerospace Nimrod AEW3

The choice of computer to integrate the various sensor systems was wrong, as the GEC 4080M was simply too slow and too underpowered to perform the tasks required of it: by the time of project cancellation, the mission system mean time between failure was around 2 hours, yet it took around 2 and a half hours to load all the mission data via a tape system.

Storage Module Device

34 sectors of 512 data bytes each per track is the configuration used on the GEC 4000 series minicomputers.

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