[Ham-Computers] computer fighters?

[Dave 'Doc' Corio]

    While I can't speak for fighters, I do know that WW II submarines 
had computers to help determine torpedo launches. They were analog and 
very primitive, but they could do a target motion analysis in a fraction 
of the time it took most people. We tend to think of computers as being 
all solid state, but when you think about it, an abacus is really a very 
primitive computer!

73
Dave
KB3MOW


jeff wrote:
> I recently came across the fact that in 1952, US fighter jets had 
> computerized missile guidance.  Does anyone know what kind of computer 
> lived in a fighter jet in 1952?
>
> If we consider that the transistor was invented in `47(?), this seems 
> a bit of a leap.  Tube computers tended to take up entire rooms, 
> requiring specialized air conditioning and blowing out tubes every 15 
> minutes (Eniac trivia).
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> Thanks.
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