5 ms·
Some videos of a very similar computer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4
by lucvanhel 10y ago
Some 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...