The Weapons Effects Display System (WEDS), Part I
Well now I'm imagining a game where you have to hurriedly calculate overpressure & radiation maps for first responders during a nuclear exchange...using this thing
Those electromechanical analog computers were actually pretty common in those days. See also this 1955 air-data computers for example: https://www.righto.com/2023/02/bendix-central-air-data-computer-cadc.html
Some of what you describe (including the mechanical cams and the way the map moves) reminded me of the Soviet Globus: http://www.righto.com/2023/01/inside-globus-ink-mechanical-navigation.html
Remarkable story, Alex. Thanks.
Well now I'm imagining a game where you have to hurriedly calculate overpressure & radiation maps for first responders during a nuclear exchange...using this thing
Those electromechanical analog computers were actually pretty common in those days. See also this 1955 air-data computers for example: https://www.righto.com/2023/02/bendix-central-air-data-computer-cadc.html
Some of what you describe (including the mechanical cams and the way the map moves) reminded me of the Soviet Globus: http://www.righto.com/2023/01/inside-globus-ink-mechanical-navigation.html
Remarkable story, Alex. Thanks.