Ah but they did! The Data Systems rate covered the digital age up into the late 1990s (there's a series of books for them too -- I was able to find one of them

Ah but they did! The Data Systems rate covered the digital age up into the late 1990s (there's a series of books for them too -- I was able to find one of them in public view at least[0]). The DS rate did everything from gate level troubleshooting of Navy computers to machine language programming and networking and more conventional IT sorts of things. Unfortunately, the DS rate was decommissioned in 1998 and the vast majority of their responsibilities were shifted over to the FC and ET rates. There was also a DP (Data Processing Technician) rate, which eventually combined with the Radioman rate to become the IT (Information Technician) rate. They're now generally in charge of all Navy computing shipboard. [0] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112105115379&view=1up&seq=3 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112105115379&v...