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QB64 Discussion / Re: Linux: Where is my compiled ( run ) file?
« on: August 19, 2020, 05:39:35 am »73 OK you win, I am a young one at 66 :-)
Holy macaroni! Did you work on code for that?
No it was a analog computer. No software involved. It was al in the hardware. A lot of potentiometers... I had to test and calibrate the thing.
It worked with 4 different radars. One search radar, 2 for tracking the target and one for controlling and sending commands to the missile.
Then we wend to Crete, launched a Nike Hercules and blow the drone out of the sky. In short, it worked.
Oh, the computer had to reset itself every second to avoid an overload. For that we had 'zero switches' in the computer: rotating glass rods in a oil filled pot.
Ah, a very differed world then... I am talking about the 60's. But it did was it was supposed to do.
Later they modified the computer with a lot of digital things.
Including a hard drive with a couple of 100 lines of code.
Calculating a trajectory for a rocket to intercept something is not that difficult. ( Yes it is rocket science... )