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The IT behind Alan Shepard's space flight
- hugh3 15y agoI wonder how much of this would have been possible without computers. The Germans, after all, could semi-reliably lob V2s at London without anything more complicated than a slide rule. If we'd been significantly faster with rocket technology and significantly slower with electronics I wonder what an uncomputerized space program would have looked like.
- sgift 15y ago> without anything more complicated than slide rule The V2 was quite complex for it's time. It had two gyroscopes, an accelerometer and an analog computer to reach the target. As always, wikipedia knows more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Technical_details http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Technical_details
- wazoox 15y agoYou _must_ see (or read the posts) "the secret history of Silicon Valley". You'll learn how incredibly advanced was WWII technology.