Comment Artillery? (Score 1) 353
"1943 saw the need for computing artillery firing charts, and ENIAC was born."
This always struck me as odd. I think it went more like: Shit. We invented the programmable digital computer. We've got 1001 uses for it so we need to declassify it. We can't very well declassify what we've been USING it for, so we gotta make up a bullshit reason for inventing it.
So uh The ARMY needed a programmable whatsahoozit to do... um... computation... er... The army computes what now? Ok artillery firing charts! Yeah the reds will buy that.
This always struck me as odd. I think it went more like: Shit. We invented the programmable digital computer. We've got 1001 uses for it so we need to declassify it. We can't very well declassify what we've been USING it for, so we gotta make up a bullshit reason for inventing it.
So uh The ARMY needed a programmable whatsahoozit to do... um... computation... er... The army computes what now? Ok artillery firing charts! Yeah the reds will buy that.
