When I was in the US Navy between 1968 and 1972 I was a Radarman. The ship I was on was a year old and had on board the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) which connected all ships in the theater of operations (Gulf of Tonkin) with a wireless view of hundreds of miles of radar imaging that umbrellaed the entire Vietnam region so that all ships had operational awareness of bogies and friendlies in the sky over the combat zone.
It seems like ancient history but I was working on the new OS X server that I just installed and suddenly realized that I had used a wireless system decades before the computer. Well shut my mouth!, I said. All these years later and I just put 2 and 2 together. Of course the system on our ship was run by 6 Univacs that were the size of todays commercial freezers but the Computer techs also had programmed a baseball game to play on the radar screens. Why don't some of my best friends tell me these things! ( The game was only played in port just so you know that we didn't waste any tax dollars while in combat.)
It seems like ancient history but I was working on the new OS X server that I just installed and suddenly realized that I had used a wireless system decades before the computer. Well shut my mouth!, I said. All these years later and I just put 2 and 2 together. Of course the system on our ship was run by 6 Univacs that were the size of todays commercial freezers but the Computer techs also had programmed a baseball game to play on the radar screens. Why don't some of my best friends tell me these things! ( The game was only played in port just so you know that we didn't waste any tax dollars while in combat.)
