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INSIDE those OLD pinball machines (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First, wear your dust mask. Who knows where these machines have been?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IIRC, when they were looking at refitting the Iowa class ships in the late 70s/early 80s, they found that while they could make the mechanical fire control computers smaller, they couldn't make them any more accurate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I mean, that's 40 years ago.
I can understand that their mechanical abilities had peaked, and weren't able to improve on it.
It would be curious to test that against a modern CNCd mechanical analog firing computer, and then test THAT against a modern 128-bit fixed/floating point computer.
I imagine the computer would win