Word: sandia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into New Mexico's Sandia Mountains went three forest rangers, a local lawyer, and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 66, there for a quick refresher course in outdoor living. At 10,000 ft., the view from the top was "splendid," but on the way down through Cibola National Forest, bitter cold, high winds and 15-ft. drifts from a sudden snowstorm turned the nightwalk into a nightmare. It took them nine hours instead of the usual five to negotiate six miles on snowshoes, edging their way down the steep switchback trails sideways like crabs. "We all had spills...
...that his new metal-plating system is all polished up and promises to revolutionize many industrial processes, Physicist Donald M. Mattox of Albuquerque's Sandia Corp. is faced with a persistent question. "People keep asking me why no one thought of it before," he says, and he has quit trying to find an answer. His best guess is that prac tical metallurgists knew too little theory to tackle the problem, while basic research scientists, who know enough theory, were unconcerned with such practical work...
Wandering Mind. Those solutions work well, but not quite well enough for today's high-power equipment. At Sandia Corp. in Albuquerque, Physicist Richard L. Davis was busy trying to devise improvements. One day he let his mind wander and remembered an old mathematical parlor trick, the Möbius loop. * Math suddenly merged with electronics, and Davis had what he was searching for: the design of a noninductive Möbius resistor...
...enlisted in the Air Force, was assigned to guided missile work at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. Discharged four years later, he labored as a civilian on Titan and Atlas missile projects, in 1960 joined the Army and worked on nuclear weapons at Jackson, S.C., and Sandia, N. Mex. Ten months after joining the Army, Gessner deserted and crossed over to Mexico...
...Sandia's men are not suggesting that all computers should now be taught to talk and think in decimal numbers, but they are convinced that for certain kinds of machine memory a decimal storage system could save much space and cost. Improved ceramic may soon be able to store more than 9 digits, but even the present wafers have obvious advantages. Stored away in binary notation, the number 99 takes seven memory units (1100011), whatever the memory , is made of-holes in a card or magnetic cores. In Sandia's decimal memory system, it would take only...