1967 Navy Satellite Navigation training film (IBM 7094 data center, AN/UYK, IBM 1410, 7702)
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IBM Computers: 1967 - U.S. Navy training film details Satellite Navigation technology. Excellent footage of IBM 7094 mainframe, AN/UYK, IBM 1410, IBM 7702 and explanation of the Navy's computer operation center. Run time: 28 mins, color & sound. - With special thanks to Naval History & Heritage Command for film preservation, and special thanks to IBM Archives for additional photos of the IBM 7094 mainframe.
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These black & white documentaries are much more better & interesting to understand than many of the documentaries made today.
The old machines are so beautiful to look at. Such lovely design
I'm a retired submarine navigation electronics technician. The AN/BRN-3 was my favorite system. This video brings back great memories.
Hi John, thank you for your feedback. Glad you enjoyed it. "Submarine navigation electronics" sounds like a very fascinating career! I bet you have seen lots of changes over the years too. ~ Victor, CHAP
Every time I watch an International Spy Museum, CHM or CHAP clip or lecture it never ceases to amaze me how dynamic the 60s were.
Interesting, I had not realized there was such an early version of satellite navigation.
One of the opening scenes of James Burke's "Connections" (Episode 4 "Faith In Numbers") series shows the TRANSIT nav sat in operation; I think that's what's being shown in this video ...
So simple, yet so effective. And so many acronyms. :)
the military loves acronyms
This is the most fascinating documentary--it's like a gourmet meal for a Virgo, (all systemic detail types) like me.
High speed data link, 2000 words per minute lol; those people could not even imagine how far we have come in computer technology
Still appreciable considering the technology at that time. And, of course, these technologies are the stepping stones to the technologies we have and use today!
LOL, who gave this a thumb down? A soviet admiral?
Flat Earthers?
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Only a differently smart person wold give such a helpful video a dislike.
5:31 The GPS of the 60s!
ground based.
@@JamesHawkeRUclips GPS still needs ground stations to move satellite orbits and tweak them
Aaaahhhh! So that's what TRW stands for!
Yeah, state of the art at the time. It was the space age and we were in a race to get to the moon before the Russians. And computers with new solid state electronic circuits would help us get there first. (June 1969) 👍🇺🇸
Actually, Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20. I remember watching the coverage on TV.
I wish this was shown high school physics class !
Thank you for the educational video. I find this interesting, but nowaday, the technical has becoming more sophisticated today. Even I bought arduino along with GPS module to experience trip datalogger and the exact location.
Very glad you enjoyed the video! Thank you for your feedback! ~
0:35 nowadays "slow" sata ssd *laughs*
I was amused to know how systems used to work back in the day. In contrast, my Smart switch does more computation than IBM mainframe used in this documentary.
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One point not mentioned is unless the satellite passes directly overhead, there are two possible locations. Which one is correct depends on some other reference. If you plotted the reception points over time, you'd have a pair of hyperbolic curves. In some cases the other reference is obvious, for example if one of the locations is on land and you're on a ship, you can discard that location. LORAN resolved this by receiving 3 transmitters, which would provide 2 sets of fixes. You were at the point where the 2 crossed. In the part about the ship born system, it mentioned "hyperboloid", without going into details about this issue.
Hi @James_Knott, fascinating! Thank you! ~
I wonder if discovery of this “lumpy earth” came as a surprise ?
The lumpy shape was well known before then through survey work. By this time numerous different datums and ellipsoid shapes for the earth were in use in various parts of the world, each meant to provide better local accuracy than any single ellipse could provide. What wasn't well known was where and how strong gravitational anomalies in the earth were that also affect satellite orbits. Nowadays we've mapped it really well and satellites devoted just to doing so continue to fly. It arises from more and less dense globs of material in the interior of the planet, the thickness of the crust, seafloor, etc.
i believe it was discovered in the mid 1700s, when they traveled the continents and measured their size by triangulation.. somehow the story was that all this was done in order to define the one meter scale... anyways, lumpy earth was discovered as a problem for that.
Can this run Vice city?
Very cool! More info on wikipedia on this system if you are interested: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_(satellite)
Interesting...
👍🇧🇷👍🇧🇷 Nice video 🇧🇷👍🇧🇷👍
Hi Tango Alpha, glad you enjoyed it! ~