Interesting story. By the way, the NTDS computer system you mentioned was very successful and important for military computing, but it's almost forgotten now.

Interesting story. By the way, the NTDS computer system you mentioned was very successful and important for military computing, but it's almost forgotten now. Wikipedia has more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Tactical_Data_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Tactical_Data_System The book When Computers Went to Sea: The Digitization of the United States Navy has a very detailed history.