19 Jun
1998
19 Jun
'98
2:20 p.m.
"Max Eskin" <maxeskin(a)hotmail.com> said:
Do you have any diagrams of the mechanical fire control
computers?
Try going to your local Federal building and look for the Goverment
Book Store. There you can find many different military training manuals.
Look for Navy manuals for Fire Control Technician 3 and 2. If you can
find it, it should have plenty of information on mechanical fire control
computers (At least they did 30 years ago).
I'm sure the Navy still uses these kind of computers on older ships with
5" guns.
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Press Start Inc.
Sunnyvale,CA
Curator
Museum of Personal Computing Machinery
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19 Jun
19 Jun
6:56 p.m.
"Max Eskin" <maxeskin(a)hotmail.com>
said:
You can get them this way??? Wow, it looks like I need to find time to
check out the local Federal building. I want to get the Data Systems
Technician manuals.
Do you have any diagrams of the mechanical fire
control computers?
Try going to your local Federal building and look for the Goverment
Book Store. There you can find many different military training manuals.
Look for Navy manuals for Fire Control Technician 3 and 2. If you can find it, it should have plenty of information on
mechanical fire control
computers (At least they did 30 years ago).
I'm sure the Navy still uses these kind of computers on older ships with
5" guns.
Well the current DS ones as of a couple of years ago had info on core
memory, so it's possible the FC manuals have mechanical computers in them,
but I doubt it. For one thing, I'm not sure the Navy still has any guns
larger than 76mm. If they do, they are RARE!
Zane
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20 Jun
20 Jun
12:42 a.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
Yes, the Navy still has guns much larger than 76 mm. Among other things,
they haven't squoze tactical nuclear shells down to that narrow. (I do
not approve of the government having such terrorist weapons or for that
matter having stronger armament than the citizens it pretends to "serve")
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
"Max Eskin"
<maxeskin(a)hotmail.com> said:
You can get them this way??? Wow, it looks like I need to find time to
check out the local Federal building. I want to get the Data Systems
Technician manuals.
Do you have any diagrams of the mechanical fire
control computers?
Try going to your local Federal building and look for the Goverment
Book Store. There you can find many different military training manuals.
Look for Navy manuals for Fire Control Technician 3 and 2. If you can find it, it should have plenty of information on
mechanical fire control
computers (At least they did 30 years ago).
I'm sure the Navy still uses these kind of computers on older ships with
5" guns.
Well the current DS ones as of a couple of years ago had info on core
memory, so it's possible the FC manuals have mechanical computers in them,
but I doubt it. For one thing, I'm not sure the Navy still has any guns
larger than 76mm. If they do, they are RARE!
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