Vintage 1970 US Navy film 1960’s Computers & Electronics; Aircraft Carrier operation, Historical
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Computing History - Vintage 1970 U.S. Navy film “NAVY MAN” shows 1960’s Computer hardware including the Naval Tactical Data System (Univac NTDS), Radar and Sonar electronics, Missile launching and tracking controls, and a wide variety of Navy career positions. Shows jet fighter aircraft taking off from USS Independence aircraft carrier (CV/CVA-62), and Various types of Navy technology and operational activities. Great historical material. - Includes brief but rare footage of the UNIVAC computers part of the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS). NTDS was a computerized information processing system developed by the U.S. Navy in the 1950s and first deployed in the early 1960s for use in combat ships. Univac delivered 241 of these units to the Navy and Foreign Military Sales. The film has some rough spots, but overall very good content. {The first 30 seconds of credits have been slightly edited}. - Uploaded for historical value only. (B&W version, 26 minutes)
For more information:
USS Ault (DD-698) was an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer en.wikipedia.o...
USS Independence (CV/CVA-62) aircraft carrier was the fourth and final member of the Forrestal class of conventionally powered supercarriers.
www.navysite.d...
The VIP Club’s web site on computers and the UNIVAC CP-642B
vipclubmn.org/C...
Ed Thelen’s Computer History Site on the NTDS (UNIVAC)
ed-thelen.org/c...
I was an NTDS technician on USS Independence CVA-62 in 1969, 70, and 71. I don't recall anyone filming us at the time and I didn't recognize anyone in the photos. That doesn't mean much but if the guy working on the NTDS computer had been on Independence it would have been me. It wasn't.
We still had CP-642B running on Carl Vinson in 1990
Very Interesting! This was only a half century ago but it just as well could've been on another planet from today's perspective. Standards, competence and true discipline are all but a distant memory.
Hi Melodius, thanks for your comment. From what I hear and see on the news, it seems it may be a different experience now. They were always famous for discipline, training, dedication, mission focus, etc. I do not have any personal first hand experience, but lots of very dedicated folks there today, I am sure.
Thnks! ~ Hunter
If you have the experience from 50 years ago, you'd remember that we were as idiotic at times as anything today. Let's not look back with rose colored glasses.
@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject The discipline is very similar as back then and likely better, at least as far as our behavior among each other.
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At 9:32, it shows computers I was trained on in 1983, they were 20 years old then. 642 Bravos
Those are the Bravos? I thought they were the Alphas. We had 3 of them on the USS Wainwright in the 80's.
@Hayden Jones in CVIC? When I did a search I thought it came up bravo.. it wasn't the one under the teletype
@@Stache987 I think they are very similar. There weren't many alphas out there. The Belknap class was the very first ships built around the NTDS system, so we had the earliest computers, the CP-642As.
@@vapoet the biggest difference I noticed was the B used thin film memory
NTDS CP-642/USQ-20(V) ? Cool. I worked on AN/USM-636(V)
9:14. We still had three CP-642B computers running the NTDS op program on USS Carl Vinson in 1990. There was also on in SINS space. You can see one on USS Midway in San Diego.
HiI @joshokc, Thanks very much for that info on the Carl Vinson! That's a long time running. -- can you clarify what is "SINS space"?' ~ Victor
I was a computer tech (DS1) back then to. But I was on a "tin can" destroyer.
I had to laugh at the guy at 13:50 with his tongue sticking out. My mother always did that while knitting or anything else that required focus and delicate hand work.
Great historic pic.
Hmm... it mentioned sub warfare. Did not show S2 from the 60s but showed, i think the Poseidon.
Also didn't see the navy e2 .. willy fudd. That would have been key for electronics in the 60s navy i think.
Newspapers and mail in early 70s on carrier, wasp, my father was on. Mail (and other supplies) was delivered by plane I saw below deck..."TWA" Trans Wasp Airlines...
Ah, the F-we-no-longer-need-guns-because-missiles!-4 Phantom.
Also, the scenes in the submarine.. you can definitely see where the reimagined Battlestar Galactica got its influences.
A4s were where it was at. LCDR Theodore R. Swartz shot down a mig with a Zuni rocket!
Amazing how they ignored that the US was deep into the Viet Nam war in 1970. As close as they got to showing anything related was a WWII era beach landing training video.
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