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* UK TNMOCAdrian Caspersz
+* Re: UK TNMOCD
|+* Re: UK TNMOCSn!pe
||`* Re: UK TNMOCKerr-Mudd, John
|| `* Re: UK TNMOCSn!pe
||  `- Re: UK TNMOCD
|`* Re: UK TNMOCBob Eager
| `- Re: UK TNMOCD
`* Re: UK TNMOCCharlie Gibbs
 +* Re: UK TNMOCThomas Prufer
 |`- Re: UK TNMOCCharlie Gibbs
 `* Re: UK TNMOCLawrence D'Oliveiro
  `* Re: UK TNMOCCharlie Gibbs
   `* Re: UK TNMOCCarlos E.R.
    `* Re: UK TNMOCLawrence D'Oliveiro
     `* Re: UK TNMOCCarlos E.R.
      `* Re: UK TNMOCD.J.
       `* Re: UK TNMOCCarlos E.R.
        `* Re: UK TNMOCD.J.
         `* Re: UK TNMOCCarlos E.R.
          `* Re: UK TNMOCD.J.
           `* Re: UK TNMOCCarlos E.R.
            `* Re: UK TNMOCD.J.
             `* Re: UK TNMOCLawrence D'Oliveiro
              +* Re: UK TNMOCJohn Levine
              |`- Re: UK TNMOCCharlie Gibbs
              `* Re: UK TNMOCD.J.
               `* Re: UK TNMOCLawrence D'Oliveiro
                +- Re: UK TNMOCD.J.
                `- Re: UK TNMOCD.J.

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Re: UK TNMOC

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From: cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs)
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 by: Charlie Gibbs - Tue, 2 Apr 2024 03:57 UTC

On 2024-04-02, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:

> According to Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>:
>
>> On Mon, 01 Apr 2024 09:20:50 -0500, D.J. wrote:
>>
>>> That was still in the days where a
>>> computer wouldn't fit, the width of the ship was 48 feet.
>>
>>But surely a PDP-8 would fit comfortably under one arm.
>
> Your arms must be longer than mine. A PDP-8/S or 8/L perhaps,
> but a PDP-8 was the size of a dishwasher.
>
>>And you could use the other arm to carry/drag an ASR-33 teletype.
>
> That's slightly more plausible.

If your arm is _really_ strong. I still have a 35RO;
I built a dolly for it.

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\ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | it has plenty of bright lights and
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | excitement, but also dark alleys
/ \ if you read it the right way. | down which the unwary get mugged.

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From: chucktheouch@gmnol.com (D.J.)
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 by: D.J. - Wed, 3 Apr 2024 17:58 UTC

On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 00:29:58 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>On Mon, 01 Apr 2024 09:20:50 -0500, D.J. wrote:
>
>> That was still in the days where a
>> computer wouldn't fit, the width of the ship was 48 feet.
>
>But surely a PDP-8 would fit comfortably under one arm.
>
>And you could use the other arm to carry/drag an ASR-33 teletype.

Three were teletypes in the radio room.

The computers on board were electro-mechanical ones used to aim the
two guns. The air search missiles had something, but I don't know what
it was.
--
Jim

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 by: Lawrence D'Oliv - Thu, 4 Apr 2024 06:00 UTC

On Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:58:34 -0500, D.J. wrote:

>>On Mon, 01 Apr 2024 09:20:50 -0500, D.J. wrote:
>>
>>> That was still in the days where a computer wouldn't fit, the width of
>>> the ship was 48 feet.
>
> The computers on board were electro-mechanical ones used to aim the two
> guns.

I thought you said a computer wouldn’t fit.

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 by: D.J. - Thu, 4 Apr 2024 16:27 UTC

On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 06:00:46 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>On Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:58:34 -0500, D.J. wrote:
>
>>>On Mon, 01 Apr 2024 09:20:50 -0500, D.J. wrote:
>>>
>>>> That was still in the days where a computer wouldn't fit, the width of
>>>> the ship was 48 feet.
>>
>> The computers on board were electro-mechanical ones used to aim the two
>> guns.
>
>I thought you said a computer wouldn’t fit.

Not vacuum tubes/valves, servos and gears.
--
Jim

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 by: D.J. - Thu, 4 Apr 2024 16:33 UTC

On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 06:00:46 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

>On Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:58:34 -0500, D.J. wrote:
>
>>>On Mon, 01 Apr 2024 09:20:50 -0500, D.J. wrote:
>>>
>>>> That was still in the days where a computer wouldn't fit, the width of
>>>> the ship was 48 feet.
>>
>> The computers on board were electro-mechanical ones used to aim the two
>> guns.
>
>I thought you said a computer wouldn’t fit.

Here ya go. They are large devices.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/gears-of-war-when-mechanical-analog-computers-ruled-the-waves/

--
Jim

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