The Globus with the case removed, showing the complex gearing and mechanisms inside.

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1. 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 🧵