Here's a somewhat thorough article about SAGE, the "Semi-Automatic Ground Environment" system co-ordinating air defense over North America from 1958, parts of it surviving operational up until the early 1980s...
In an exclusive interview the President of SSB Prof. Dr. Ismail Demir spoke to defensehere.com about "Project Liberty (Özgür)".
Touching on the needs of the Turkish Air Force for aircrafts, Demir said the following:
"Liberty is a project carried out independently of the USA. So, if we were...
http://airminded.org/2008/06/04/moniac-and-the-warfare-state/
One of the interesting things about this is that the prototype of this 'analogue hydraulic computer' was built out of spare Lancaster parts!
1950s
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analogue hydraulic computer
british commonwealth
british empire
cold war
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computing
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great britain
hydraulic computer
hydraulic computing
late 1940s
london school of economics
monetary national income analogue computer
new zealand
post-world war ii
royal air force
the phillips machine
Built by Osaka Imperial University and Syowa Kookuu-keiki Co.Ltd., likely on a Imperial Japanese Navy contract.
Note that postwar the Japanese use the American spelling for analyser, i.e. analyzer.
There are a couple of pictures at the original article.
It had an older (completed in 1942)...
Because my stupid decision, I was just attacked by a combination of a very felonious and resistant trojan horses, that infected my system files, MBR table and one of them set itself as the system restore file, so it attacked my clean reinstalled Windows. It took me nearly the three days to clean...
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