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BMEWS and computer
The basic layout of the MOBIDIC system was also used for the AN / ASD-1 computer used on the Boeing RC-135 ELINT aircraft, the PARADE and TIDEWATER projects, and its basic circuitry was used extensively in the development of the IBM 7090 for the BMEWS systems.

BMEWS and NORAD
BMEWS intelligence is simultaneously flashed to NORAD ( North American Air Defense Command ) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for interpretation ; ;

BMEWS and Operations
Air Force technicians work at tracking monitors in the Tactical Operations Room on the Thule BMEWS.

BMEWS and Center
Information received from the BMEWS radars is forwarded to the JFCC SPACE Missile Warning Center at Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, Colorado, where it is coordinated with data from other sensors, including other PAVE PAWS sites.

BMEWS and ),
Among other accomplishments, it cited development of medium-and long-range bombers ( including the B-52s put into service during the 1950s ) and ICBMs ; installation of a continental defense system the Distant Early Warning Line ( DEW ) Line, the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System ( BMEWS ), and Nike surface-to-air missile systems ; production of several nuclear submarines, beginning with the Nautilus in 1954, and Forrestal-type carriers ; and creation of the Defense Communications Agency.
Because the advent of ICBMs created another attack scenario that the DEW Line could not defend against, in 1958 the US Government authorized construction of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System ( BMEWS ), at a reported cost of $ 28 billion.

BMEWS and Colorado
The appearance of ballistic missiles to carry nuclear warheads spurred a second wave of defense efforts — the construction of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System ( BMEWS ) and a survivable new command center for the North American Air Defense Command deep under Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado.

BMEWS and 1960
The British government was not the main beneficiary of BMEWS, given that it would only receive what Solly Zuckerman described in 1960 as " no more than 5 minutes warning time " of an attack.

BMEWS and .
The chain starts at BMEWS ( Ballistic Missile Early Warning System ) in Thule, Greenland.
The Soviet Air Force then destroys a BMEWS station in RAF Fylingdales, England and another at Beale Air Force Base in California.
* The US Air Force retired its last 7090s in service from the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (" BMEWS ") in the 1980s after almost 30 years of use.
* PAVE PAWS-The Phased-Array Warning System which replaced the three BMEWS radars.
This complements the coverage provided by the BMEWS system in red.
Scheduled to become a PAVE PAWS site from being a BMEWS site in 2001.
Coverage of BMEWS is shown in red, complementing the coverage provided by the PAVE PAWS system in blue.
The United States Air Force Ballistic Missile Early Warning System ( BMEWS ) was the first operational ballistic missile detection radar.
BMEWS was the fourth radar warning system built during the decade of the 1950s in response to the Cold War with the former Soviet Union.
PAVE PAWS Phased array Radar that replaced BMEWS at Clear AFS, Alaska.
A prototype of BMEWS, located in Trinidad, began providing surveillance and tracking of ballistic missiles by 1958, and went operational on February 4, 1959, to gather data on missiles fired at the Atlantic Missile Range, as well as satellites and meteors.
The full BMEWS radar network became operational in the early 1960s.
The Soviet Union developed a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System ( FOBS ) in part to counteract the network of sensors covering the northern hemisphere, including BMEWS, which was only able to point in a fixed direction.
Additionally, the FOBS could be launched southward, overflying most of the globe and then approaching the U. S. from the south, where it would be invisible to BMEWS.
Submarine-launched ballistic missiles also avoided detection by BMEWS, developing into a credible threat in the 1970s.
BMEWS 3, located in RAF Fylingdales, was upgraded by Raytheon / Cossor AeroSpace and Control Data Corporation at a cost of US $ 100M.
Along with the PAVE PAWS radar sites at Cape Cod Air Force Station on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Beale Air Force Base, California and the PARCS radar at Cavalier AFS, North Dakota, the BMEWS sites provide continual ground-based missile warning for the United States and Canada, with satellite surveillance as a secondary role.
" The base hosts the 12th Space Warning Squadron ( 12 SWS ) which operates a Ballistic Missile Early Warning System ( BMEWS ) designed to detect and track ICBMs launched against North America.

DIP and computer
Instead of plugging in eight or nine single DIP DRAM chips, only one additional memory module was needed to increase the memory of the computer.
Since this entire process is fully automated, the computer user is spared the task of configuring any newly added hardware manually by modifying settings of DIP switches on the cards themselves.

DIP and ),
The MC68HC11A8 is available in a 48-pin dual in-line package ( DIP ), as well as the 52-pin plastic leaded chip carrier ( PLCC ) as shown above.
An operating prototyped circuit incorporating four DIP ICs, a DIP LED bargraph display ( upper left ), and a DIP 7-segment LED display ( lower left ).
Even for a very small die with many bond pads ( e. g. a chip with 15 inverters, requiring 32 leads ), a wider DIP would still be required to accommodate the radiating leads internally.
Instead, each node is assigned an 8 bit address ( usually via DIP switches ), and when a new node joins the network a " reconfig " occurs, wherein each node learns the address of the node immediately above it.
Standard DIP packages come in two widths ( measured between pin centers ), 0. 3 in ( 7. 62 mm ) ( skinny dip ) for smaller devices ( 8-28 pin ) and 0. 6 in ( 15. 24 mm ) for larger devices ( 24-40 pin ).
With an optional RAM upgrade ( requires eight 120ns DIP chips ), the 4-bit version supports 640 × 480 in 8-bit color.
The original through-hole devices in dual in-line packages ( DIP / DIL ), which were the mainstay of the industry for many decades, are very useful for rapid breadboard-prototyping and education and so remain available from most manufacturers.
For example SN74ALS245N means this is a device probably made by Texas Instruments ( SN ), it is a commercial temperature range TTL device ( 74 ), it is a member of the " advanced low-power Schottky " family ( ALS ), and it is a bi-directional eight-bit buffer ( 245 ) in a plastic through-hole DIP package ( N ).
Variants available include the 556 ( a 14-pin DIP combining two 555s on one chip ), and the two 558 & 559s ( both a 16-pin DIP combining four slightly modified 555s with DIS & THR connected internally, and TR is falling edge sensitive instead of level sensitive ).
Commercial circuit packaging quickly moved to the dual in-line package ( DIP ), first in ceramic and later in plastic.
Some very small transformers — e. g. 4 transformers in one tiny dual in-line ( DIP ) chip package — used to isolate high-frequency low-voltage ( logic ) pulse circuits ( e. g., 500V RMS primary – secondary for one second ), are described as isolation transformers
For a component such as a Dual-Inline Package ( DIP ), the pins are too short to pull out, and solder melted on one joint will solidify before another can be melted.
Intel 8087 coprocessors were fabricated in two variants, one with ceramic side-brazed DIP ( CerDIP ) and one in hermetic DIP ( PDIP ), and were designed to operate in the following temperature ranges:
The final revision ( v3. 74 ) of the GUS Classic featured 256 kB of onboard RAM ( upgradeable to 1024 kB through DIP sockets ), hardware analog mixer, and support for 16-bit recording through a separate daughterboard based on the Crystal Semiconductor CS4231 audio codec.
The Portfolio uses an Intel 80C88 CPU running at 4. 9152 MHz and ran " DIP Operating System 2. 11 " ( DIP DOS ), an operating system mostly compatible to MS-DOS 2. 11, but with some DOS 2. xx functionality lacking and some internal data structures more compatible with MS-DOS 3. xx.
Although the poet Murilo Mendes had proposed marriage to Nery in the late 1930s, she married in 1940 Lourival Fontes ( 1899 – 1967 ), director general of the Department of Press and Propaganda ( DIP ).

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