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You might like the book "When computers went to sea", which discusses the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) in detail. Univac plays a big part in this and Cray
by kens 4y ago
You might like the book "When computers went to sea", which discusses the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) in detail. Univac plays a big part in this and Cray has a smaller part. The NTDS was a huge project in the 1950s and 1960s to build shipboard computers for command and control, networked between ships to provide a unified view of the battlefield. Despite its success, NTDS is pretty much forgotten now.
If anyone else is interested in the IBM books you mentioned, they are (I presume) "IBM's Early Computers" and "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems", both extremely detailed.
- detourdog 4y agoAlong these lines. I collect Autonetics artifacts which contain a large number of first principal equations for inertial guidance. Here is a link to some RECOMP-III which is a repurposed ICBM guidance computer being used as a general interactive computer. https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_autoneticstingMan1963_21561232 https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_autoneticstingMan1963_... I need to get my act together and get this collection on-line but here is a link that has images pre-microprocessor computers. There are 3 images of books one has some a picture of a "Typical Midcourse Navigation-Guidance Profile" https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0YGI9HKKGuamw1 https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0YGI9HKKGuamw1