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Magnetic Memory. Haystack's radio antenna will also be the most versatile anywhere in the free world. By changing transmitters and receivers it can be used as a superradar, radio telescope, or a radio transmitter to talk to and listen to communications satellites or spacecraft probing the planets. Haystack is so sensitive, and its tasks so enormous, that its operation could never be entrusted to mere men. The antenna beam will be pointed by a Univac 490, which will be able to call on a magnetic memory with a complete astronomical almanac for the sun, moon and eight planets...
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