GP-4 computer

[markeby]

Anyone have major assemblies for Link GP-4 computers or any peripherals?

[guest]

We do have some of the cards as removed from a decommisiond B707 Simulator. If you have specific P/N let me know. kindly advise your e-mail for further communication.

Aman

[The Farm]

I may know where some are. What do you need?

[skippysan]

man, I was on the F4 FSUP program and got to personally push a couple GP4 computers out the back door. that damn R2D2 Drum memory used to really tick me off !!! We put these Cel computers on a prototype in the plant in binghamton and then some at George and then in Korea and at Clark. I havent thought about a GP4 since old Ron Wagner at Link called me up a few years ago and asked me if I wanted to go to Turkey to work on an F4. I said, well, maybe, but then he said it was pre-FSUP (with GP4) and located up somewhere by the border with Russia where all the people were fundamentalist muslim, and I SAID yea I would do it but for only $200k per year !!! HAHAHAHAHA. I never heard from him again. Anybody out there hearda Rick Key, Joe Herrmann, Fred Goodrich ?? Any Link guys out there from those good old days in the 80s ??

[Hunter]

I just ran across this thread when searching for some GP4 stuff. I wanted to clear up the Turkey F-4E post. The GP4's are used in Eskisehir, Turkey and it is a pretty neat place. The FSUP-Gould computers are now only used in Malatya, Turkey. I work on all of them as of Oct. 2007. The GP4's still runs without a glitch. State of the Art. We have upgraded the Drum to a PC based Drum Emulator, this also eliminated the GP4's card reader. I just replaced a Teletype Model 35 with a PC using Hyper Terminal. That was used on an RDS-500. I just had to build a little current loop/RS-232 interface. You have to love thumbing, card punching, paper tape, 9-Track and all of that other history. You should of took up the FSUP offer.

As far as parts go for old Link stuff and this includes GP4, go to the BSC - Binghamton Simulator Company at

http://www.bsc.com/

BSC was started by some ex-Link engineers after Link moved out of Binghamton. They have a huge Link spares inventory.

[Furio]

man, I was on the F4 FSUP program and got to personally push a couple GP4 computers out the back door. that damn R2D2 Drum memory used to really tick me off !!! We put these Cel computers on a prototype in the plant in binghamton and then some at George and then in Korea and at Clark. I havent thought about a GP4 since old Ron Wagner at Link called me up a few years ago and asked me if I wanted to go to Turkey to work on an F4. I said, well, maybe, but then he said it was pre-FSUP (with GP4) and located up somewhere by the border with Russia where all the people were fundamentalist muslim, and I SAID yea I would do it but for only $200k per year !!! HAHAHAHAHA. I never heard from him again. Anybody out there hearda Rick Key, Joe Herrmann, Fred Goodrich ?? Any Link guys out there from those good old days in the 80s ??

Last I heard from Freddy Goodrich was around late 1990 at Canon. He was there for the F111G model installation with me. He and my wife wasted a lot of quarters in the pinball machine at the biker bar in Clovis we all used to hang out at. I think the name of the bar was Camelot. Not something you'd expect from a biker bar!

[guest]

>>The GP4's still runs without a glitch. State of the Art. We have upgraded the Drum to a PC based Drum Emulator, this also eliminated the GP4's card reader.
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I designed and installed the Drum Emulators on those F4E and RF4 sims. Glad to hear they're still running. While I was there, the Turk's F-16s were flying sorties into northern Iraq where we (the US) were bombing Sadaam's army. I still have a Meerschaum pipe and a couple of the Turkish Airforce squadron patches I was given as presents when I left.

Seems like a long time ago.

Bob Stephens
(formerly of ) AVIA Research