6 Feb
2001
6 Feb
'01
10:52 a.m.
Sorry, I haven't heard anything about that. But as far as I can guess, they
probably got rid of it a long time ago. My guess is that we now use
something similar to that, only it's all digital now. I can say this because
the Navy likes to be as state of the art as humanly possible.
David,
Someone once told me about a huge, gymnasium-sized analog battle >simulator
somewhere in Groton. It apparently used small replicas of >ships that were
attached to wires or something and moved around the >"ocean". The display
was a periscope that came up through the floor and >you practiced firing
away at the ships.
Might you know if this is still in operation?
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Home page: http://www.geocities.com/netsurfer_x1/
Computer Collection:
"Triumph": Commodore 64C, 1802, 1541, FSD-1, GeoRAM 512, MPS-801.
"Leela": Macintosh 128 (Plus upgrade), Nova SCSI HDD, Imagewriter II.
"Delorean": TI-99/4A, TI Speech Synthesizer.
"Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable.
"Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer 3, Disto 512K RAM board.
"Boombox": Sharp PC-7000.
"Butterfly": Tandy Model 200, PDD, CCR-82
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