Did yours have a button cap labelled 'Voice'. or some such term, for a promised voice control feature that never materialized before the ILS was abandoned? But you did have the reflected 'heads up display' similar to fighter jet cockpits, right? We had an ILS in Toronto for a while, I want to say it was in one of the venues in St. Lawrence Centre. EC salesmen were organizing personal tours for any potential buyers / users.1977 Electro-Controls ILS at the University of Houston. Operated totally by a computer keyboard. Had a monochrome video monitor and used a general purpose minicomputer made by Data General with a gigantic 8" (?) floppy disk. I think only 3 or 4 were ever sold. Was a pretty impressive "state of the art" design except a belt the size of a rubber band that ran the floppy drive kept falling off and EC made us call the Data General service guy to fix it each time under warranty. Must have cost them a fortune. Within a year or year and a half, it became so problematic that that the university negotiated with EC to supply a huge two scene preset "backup" console custom-painted in UH red.
I left two years later and have often wondered how long they were able to keep it running.
That would be the, much later, Electro Controls Premiere--as far as I know, the only console ever with a HUD. As discussed in this and surrounding posts. (Especially post#36.)... But you did have the reflected 'heads up display' similar to fighter jet cockpits, right? ...
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