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On 6/9/2014 4:42 AM, Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <Oh8lv.3054150$g45.1966995@fx10.iad>, Will Honea
> <whonea@whonea.net> wrote:
> 
>> Emanuel Berg wrote:
>>
>> > Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> writes:
>> > >> Then you have no idea. The use of that computer, and
>> >> the work that went with it, saved thousands of lives
>> >> and materially shortened the war.
>> > > Why don't you go to a veteran's meeting in Moscow or
>> > Minsk and tell your your tales?
>> > > I never said that computers didn't play a role. I said
>> > they could play a minor-minor-minor role. In a war of
>> > that magnitude that isn't small, but big. But it is
>> > still small considering what was truly big.
>>
>> While it sounds trivial, the original purpose of the electronic
>> "computer" was to replace the human computers calculating updated
>> artillery trajectory tables.  That mundane effort resulted in
>> substantially more accurate and effective fire and contributed
>> considerably to resulting casualties.  Not all effects are
>> immediately visible.
> 
> And analogue computers were part of the radar controlled guns that shot
> down V1 cruise missiles.
> 
Not to mention the fire control system of probably every large ship on
any side, bombsights, and larger antiaircraft batteries.

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70 years ago today Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-06-06 13:20 +0000
  Re: 70 years ago today Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> - 2014-06-06 16:26 +0200
    Re: 70 years ago today Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-06-06 14:31 +0000
      Re: 70 years ago today Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-06 16:59 +0100
    Re: 70 years ago today Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-06-06 16:45 +0000
    Re: 70 years ago today Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-06 18:13 +0100
      Re: 70 years ago today Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-06-06 17:20 +0000
      Re: 70 years ago today scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-06-06 18:10 +0000
      Re: 70 years ago today Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> - 2014-06-06 22:26 +0200
        Re: 70 years ago today Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-06-06 21:15 +0000
          Re: 70 years ago today Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> - 2014-06-06 23:40 +0200
            Re: 70 years ago today Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-06-07 17:53 +0000
            Re: 70 years ago today Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-06-07 23:27 +0000
              Re: 70 years ago today Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> - 2014-06-08 18:30 +0200
                Re: 70 years ago today David Harmon <source@netcom.com> - 2014-06-08 12:38 -0700
                Re: 70 years ago today Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> - 2014-06-08 21:55 +0200
                Re: 70 years ago today Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-08 23:46 +0100
                Re: 70 years ago today Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-06-08 19:42 -0600
                Re: 70 years ago today Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-09 10:42 +0100
                Re: 70 years ago today Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2014-06-09 14:19 -0500
        Re: 70 years ago today Philip Shaw <jnufcvyvuc@tznvy.pbz> - 2014-06-10 14:47 +0000
    Re: 70 years ago today greymausg@mail.com - 2014-06-06 17:59 +0000
      Re: 70 years ago today Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-06-07 18:58 +0100
        Re: 70 years ago today Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> - 2014-06-08 00:15 +0200
        Re: 70 years ago today Jon Lane <jon@dorsal.tk> - 2014-06-25 17:15 +0000
  Re: 70 years ago today MG <marcogbNO@SPAMxs4all.nl> - 2014-06-07 15:16 +0200
  Re: 70 years ago today Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-06-07 18:46 +0200
  Re: 70 years ago today hlexa@hotmail.com (Axel Hammerschmidt) - 2014-06-08 20:13 +0200
  Re: 70 years ago today RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-09 10:16 +0000
    Re: 70 years ago today MG <marcogbNO@SPAMxs4all.nl> - 2014-06-12 13:15 +0200
      Re: 70 years ago today Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-12 15:07 +0100
        Re: 70 years ago today MG <marcogbNO@SPAMxs4all.nl> - 2014-06-12 23:14 +0200
          Re: 70 years ago today Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-12 22:41 +0100

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