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The first portable computer was a slide rule, which all engineers were required to master. | The first portable computer was a slide rule, which all engineers were required to master. | ||
| − | The first (non-human) military computers were analog fire control on the battleship Missouri and bomb-sights on aircraft. | + | The first (non-human) military computers were analog fire control on the battleship Missouri and bomb-sights on aircraft during the Second World War. |
===The First Network=== | ===The First Network=== | ||
| + | In the late 1950s, a sophisticated continental air defense system was developed by the United States Air Force to protect North America from incoming Soviet nuclear bombers. The name of the system was SAGE - the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment. SAGE was a massive technical complex of 23 concrete bunkers in the U.S. and (one) in Canada, each connected to local and distant radar stations and controlled by the largest computer system of its day.<ref>Bernd Ulmann, ''AN/FSQ-7: the computer that shaped the Cold War '' ISBN-13 978-3486727661</ref> | ||
the beginning of the computer. So the AN/FSQ-7 has already anticipated many techniques, which one would have suspected only later: modem, screen pen, graphics, etc. It's just great to look at these dinosaurs. | the beginning of the computer. So the AN/FSQ-7 has already anticipated many techniques, which one would have suspected only later: modem, screen pen, graphics, etc. It's just great to look at these dinosaurs. | ||
Revision as of 10:52, 28 April 2023
Full Title or Meme
While the word computer in 2020 implies digital computer, the first useful computers were analog.
Context
The first portable computer was a slide rule, which all engineers were required to master.
The first (non-human) military computers were analog fire control on the battleship Missouri and bomb-sights on aircraft during the Second World War.
The First Network
In the late 1950s, a sophisticated continental air defense system was developed by the United States Air Force to protect North America from incoming Soviet nuclear bombers. The name of the system was SAGE - the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment. SAGE was a massive technical complex of 23 concrete bunkers in the U.S. and (one) in Canada, each connected to local and distant radar stations and controlled by the largest computer system of its day.[1]
the beginning of the computer. So the AN/FSQ-7 has already anticipated many techniques, which one would have suspected only later: modem, screen pen, graphics, etc. It's just great to look at these dinosaurs.
Bernd Ulmann, Analog Computing 2nd Extended ed. Edition de Gruyter Textbook) ISBN 978-3110787610
Problems
Back to the Future
https://www.wired.com/story/unbelievable-zombie-comeback-analog-computing/- ↑ Bernd Ulmann, AN/FSQ-7: the computer that shaped the Cold War ISBN-13 978-3486727661
