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1935 Meccano "Dam Busters" Computer Restored

Posted by kdawson on from the differential-analyzer dept.

rob1959 writes "A 1935 analog computer, built at Cambridge University and used to help plan the Dam Busters attacks on the Ruhr hydro dams in World War II, has been restored and put on display at Auckland's Museum of Transport and Technology. The computer came to NZ around 1950 and was used, ironically, to build hydro dams there — and to calculate rabbit population numbers."

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  1. Horrible Article by Pionus · · Score: -1, Troll

    <quote>Pratt says Steve Wozniak, the <b>Mac&#8217;s designer</b>, was known to have posters of the DG Nova on his wall.</quote>

    Hello Rob O&#8217;Neill should be fired for this blatent act of noobetry. The Woz didn't design the Mac, he designed the Apple 2! This article could be completely false. Perhaps the Dam Buster didn't estimate rabbits populations but Beaver populations! We'll never know thanks to this lack of professional journalism.

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