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Torpedo Data Computer Mark 3 – Jun 1944 (2013)
- davidp 10y agoThis computer (or one very similar to it) was described in the great WW2 submarine yarn _Run Silent, Run Deep_. Amazing to see the actual manual for it so many years after imagining it while reading the book. The book is well worth a read, although as you'd expect it does have 1940s-era white-people sensibilities about race and gender.
- robryk 10y agoThe same site has a complete set of manuals for a WW2 era US submarine: http://maritime.org/doc/index.htm#ss http://maritime.org/doc/index.htm#ss
- pasbesoin 10y agoI came here to post that URL, but without the fragment. In other words, don't miss navigating up to the top level of the docs/ hierarchy -- looks to have lots of interesting stuff.
- lucvanhel 10y agoSome videos of a very similar computer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4
- exDM69 10y agoThis is an excellent video about analog computer basics. I've watched it many times and it's always entertaining and educational. It's hard to imagine, but these things were still in active service well in to the 1980s, for example in the Vulcan bomber which flew a raid to the Falklands.
- rjsw 10y agoThe British torpedos used in the Falklands war were designed in 1925 [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_21_inch_torpedo#21_inch_Mark_VIII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_21_inch_torpedo#21_inc...
- realo 10y agoAs per the book: weight : 1,507 lb Dense construction.
- kdeldycke 10y agoTrigonometry is so dangerous the US Navy classified its access in 1944: https://twitter.com/kdeldycke/status/790891194561822720 https://twitter.com/kdeldycke/status/790891194561822720