UNIVAC 1050-2
fabio
<pgol...@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>Back in the mid sxties I was working for Sperry Systems Management. They
>were a Naval contractor, division of Sperry Gyroscope, involved in the
>development of navigation and weapons delivery systems for the Polaris and
>Posiedon class subs as well as the Naval ILAAS airborne navigation weapons
>delivery computer - I think it was being used in the Navy A4 Skyhawk. The
>1020/1050 series of computers, if I remember correctly, were used for
>shipboard navigation and gun control. We also had a number in house for
>simulation purposes. Really can't, still not allowed to?, say much more
>about what we did with them.
>However, this was my first programming job and I remember when I first read
>the overview manuals for the computers I was fascinated by the fact that one
>of the things the computers did when being used for gun control aboard
>battleships was sense the roll and pitch of the ship and then use that
>information to feed servos to keep the big guns aligned on the target. I
>wonder if these computers are still being used on board the ships, wouldn't
>be surprised if they were.
Il poveraccio non sa che da questo momento.....la marina Usa sara'
ehm..depredata delle sue piu' vecchie macchine da calcolo...
Ragazzi! Come state ad addestramento di incursori di marina?
Io, male grazie...ho fatto l'alpino!
Credo che seriamente ora si usino piu' lasers per il puntamento che
selsyn e encoders.
CIAO,fabio
>Regards,
>Paul
>
>
>http://www.digiweb.com/%7Ehansp/ccc/cclist2.htm
>"PMunsel" <pmu...@aol.com> wrote in message
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>> Anybody ever have experience with one of these? ....
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hflo...@my-deja.com
year in S.E.A working on the U1050-2 Base Supply System. After the AF,
I worked for Univac for a year --- the machine that ran the customer
bills for commercial time was a U1050. Got lots of stories --- email me
at hflo...@uswest.net
Howie Flomberg
In article <387e2de3...@news.dada.it>,
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Before you buy.
Alberto Rubinelli - A2 SISTEMI
> > ehm..depredata delle sue piu' vecchie macchine da calcolo...
> > Ragazzi! Come state ad addestramento di incursori di marina?
> > Io, male grazie...ho fatto l'alpino!
Giusto, un Univac ... ci mancava proprio nella mia collezione :)
Anche io pero' sono un ex alpino ;-)
Ciao.Alberto.