No Damned Computer Is Going to Tell Me What to Do

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:No_Damned_Computer_is_Going_to_Tell_Me_What_to_DO_-_The_Story_of_the_Naval_Tactical_Data_System,_NTDS

by jki275 • 6 years ago

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jki275• 6 years ago

Noticed yesterday the NEETS modules were posted, and it seems there are a few of us old Navy techs on the board.

This is the story of the beginnings of Navy computing -- it's also indirectly a history of the Data Systems Technician and the Data Processing rates, those of us who worked on Navy computers from the 1970s on. As DS techs in the Navy, our main job was to keep operational the computers and display systems that processed radar data and track data, presented that picture to the people who had to make firing decisions, and passed their commands to the weapon systems.

This link is to a paper written by Captain David L. Boslaugh, it's been around for a number of years. I've linked each chapter below as the article is a bit hard to navigate through if you start reading with chapter 1.

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:The_Navy_Codebreakers_and_Their_...

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:McNally%27s_Challenge,_Conceptua...

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:Building_the_U.S._Navy%27s_First...

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:Testing_the_Naval_Tactical_Data_...

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:Moving_the_Firing_Key_to_NTDS_-_...

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:The_Naval_Tactical_Data_System_i...

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:The_Marine_Tactical_Data_System_...

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:Legacy_of_NTDS_-_Chapter_9_of_th...

No Damned Computer Is Going to Tell Me What to Do

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