There is a very well written history of the US navy's first shipboard computer system. https://ethw.org/First-Hand:No_Damned_Computer_is_Going_to_Tell_Me_What_

There is a very well written history of the US navy's first shipboard computer system. https://ethw.org/First-Hand:No_Damned_Computer_is_Going_to_Tell_Me_What_to_DO_-_The_Story_of_the_Naval_Tactical_Data_System,_NTDS https://ethw.org/First-Hand:No_Damned_Computer_is_Going_to_T... The article shows up here fairly regularly. I mainly bring it up as the computer was developed by Sperry, and it really is a good read about an early tech project.