Old pinball machines are amazingly complex
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First, wear your dust mask. Who knows where these machines have been?

  • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
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    11 months ago

    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.

    • towerful@programming.devEnglish
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      11 months 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