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excerpt: "CATS was fortunate indeed to have Mr. Carroll G. Dudley--from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt--agree to be guest speaker at our November meeting. His theme was: \"Big and small Computers at Goddard\". Before the meeting, Carroll confided that sometime ago he acquired a TS-1000 system at a yard sale, attracted as he was…"
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# Computers at GSFC

CATS was fortunate indeed to have Mr. Carroll G. Dudley–from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt–agree to be guest speaker at our November meeting. His theme was: “Big and small Computers at Goddard”.

Before the meeting, Carroll confided that sometime ago he acquired a TS-1000 system at a yard sale, attracted as he was by its historic significance. We should therefore already consider him a member of the Sinclair family