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To: unclewest who wrote (68420)9/9/2004 1:51:01 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793914
 
I was a computer programmer for the Army in 1972. There were no computers in the field. The mainframes in the Pentagon had less capacity that the all but the earliest PCs and they required special rooms, big rooms. One of the systems I worked on was for Tables of Organization and Equipment. By equipment they sure didn't mean computers.



To: unclewest who wrote (68420)9/9/2004 3:11:35 PM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793914
 
If they had computers then, they were well hidden.
No troop unit had them.

Computers in 1972 filled whole rooms instead of pockets, like today.

Some of the first computers were built by the British Navy for computing fire control, as an interesting historical aside. War has always been one of the best spurs to innovation. ;)

Derek


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