u.s navy vintage fire control computers (part 1)

[lovelplants]

well its educational.

[fakemadereal]

I hope sspoke knows that in the 40s, it was probably more reliable to use mechanical computers than chips ( actually, that guy is a retard. They used vacuum tubes back then). It would have been smarter to keep these things to simple mathematics, rather than new sciences.

[QuietStargazer]

@fakemadereal The first non-mechanical computer weighed more than 30 tons, took of 2000 square feet, required 150 KWs to operate, and took days to give you an answer.

[stikowsky]

computoah! compute something !

[Frisbieinstein]

Shaft! Can you dig it?

[fastenerpuller]

"A computer cannot do this... without men."

[cyborgtroy]

@fastenerpuller - Manly men.

[TheScientist0000000]

I wonder what you would have had to get on the ASVAB to get this job.

[Unisaur64]

Thanks for posting this.

I've had a real interest in analog computing, specifically the mechanical side, since I went to Germany when I was 14.

I went to a museum with my family there that had a jacquard loom and a giant table top that I was told was able to add and subtract.

Also, that episode of Doctor Who with the clock-powered robots stimulated my interest in the subject XD

[Quebster]

@sspoke This was made in 1953, you idiot.

[Forgeable]

@sspoke Go look up the tsar tank, and see who are really dumbasses,

[wanderlustleads]

All media commissioned by the US government is public domain (the US Government is barred from holding copyright). You're fine.

[nwrman]

Awesome!

[MadOverlord]

Very interesting stuff. Thanks for taking the time to put it online.

[andrewxv]

awsome set of videos

[marmaladekamikaze]

Thanks, I've always been fascinated with mechanical computers, like the antykitera mechanism

[H31MU7]

@marmaladekamikaze

or the babbage computational engine :D

[Kaikukolo]

Thank you!