Old specialist computer

[Martinr36]

Ok any guesses what this old specialist computerused to do, dates back to the late 50's, this was only part of the computer

 

[TonyCarter]

GPS, or pong?

 

[SpyderTracks]

Ok any guesses what this old specialist computerused to do, dates back to the late 50's, this was only part of the computer

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For controlling a huge telescopes tragectory?

 

[HomerJ]

For controlling a huge telescopes tragectory?

but can it run crysis

 

[Martinr36]

For controlling a huge telescopes tragectory?

Yeah, that's it, was part of the original computer that controlled the Jodrell bank radio telescope

 

[SpyderTracks]

Yeah, that's it, was part of the original computer that controlled the Jodrell bank radio telescope

I wonder how accurate it was, must have been pretty close. That's pretty complex really.

 

[Martinr36]

I wonder how accurate it was, must have been pretty close. That's pretty complex really.

Well it was accurate enough to track the ballistic missile that put sputnic into space

 

[SpyderTracks]

Well it was accurate enough to track the ballistic missile that put sputnic into space

That's quite remarkable, when you think that computing at a mainframe level wasn't really a thing until mid 60's, what they've achieved there is nothing short of miraculous.

 

[Martinr36]

That's quite remarkable, when you think that computing at a mainframe level wasn't really a thing until mid 60's, what they've achieved there is nothing short of miraculous.

yeah, when you look back at the early days of the radio telescope project there, they were cobbling together things from chicken wire and old searchlights, the gears that control the tilt of the Lovell telescope, started off life in some gun turrets of a battle ship.........