"Digital vs. Analog Navy" Topic
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| Sundance | 19 Mar 2014 12:33 p.m. PST |
link Interesting read on how one aspect of the Navy has changed. Or not. |
| tberry7403 | 19 Mar 2014 12:48 p.m. PST |
Verizon Yahoo! wants me to Log In. |
| Sundance | 19 Mar 2014 12:54 p.m. PST |
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| tberry7403 | 19 Mar 2014 1:12 p.m. PST |
OK, that one worked. Thanks. |
 gamertom  | 19 Mar 2014 6:55 p.m. PST |
Wonderful article – analog had some advantages digital doesn't. |
| David Manley | 19 Mar 2014 11:13 p.m. PST |
Inherently EMP hardened too :) |
| PHGamer | 20 Mar 2014 6:44 a.m. PST |
Thanks for finding that one. I served on a Talos ship, with the last of the MK 111 analog computers, nicknamed "the Coffee Grinder" There is a certain affection to watching the wheels spin, and the fact that even if the automatic tracking circuits were failing, we had men with the skill to manually spin the dials to stay on target. |
| PHGamer | 20 Mar 2014 6:48 a.m. PST |
EMP hardened? As if any EMP pulse is going to get through 7 inches of deck armor, that is grounded in an ocean of sea water. |
| Lion in the Stars | 20 Mar 2014 10:42 a.m. PST |
They're still connected to radar and comms antennas, which are designed to suck in electromagnetic waves with great efficiency and conduct them to the electronics. |
| ghostdog | 20 Mar 2014 1:50 p.m. PST |
Great link, thanks. I have found very interesting the reason why this computers had problems to deal with both jets and kamikazes. My only point.. does he said that the us ships used mechanical fuzes for aa rounds? I used to think that the us had proximity fuzes in the pacific theatre, at least in late years |
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