The Globus INK-2S is a grayish metal box with a colorful rotating globe in the middle under a plastic dome. The box has six knobs, three indicators with rotating digits, and three dial-like indicators. The knobs and displays are labeled with Russian text.

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Ken Shirriff (kenshirriff@oldbytes.space)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jan-2023 21:48:57 UTC Ken Shirriff

The Globus INK (1967) is a remarkable piece of Soviet spacecraft equipment. Its rotating globe showed cosmonauts the position of their Soyuz spacecraft. An electromechanical analog computer, it used gears, cams, and differentials to compute the position. Let's look inside 🧵

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