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Hahaha, GE made a ship control system that looked something like that. That would be the engine room wheel that corresponds to the topside wheel so when the helmsman makes a bridge adjustment the engine room tracked it. What was really funny was that on the inside of the panel was only a 1 inch diameter potentiometer connected to the big wheel. In ancient times the wheel was connected under the deck with rods and universals to the actual valves that required some effort to turn. The gages would have the volts, amps, watts etc for the generators and the commands and data as things went in and out of alarm would be printed out on what GE used to make at Waynesboro, VA plant, some sort of clone of the IBM Selectric. (I think they were called Terminet and were line printers for those of you who know) These were called the bell logger to log the speed and directions commands and the alarm logger. I don't remember them having monitors but maybe this is Super Custom model. Oh, it was called COS or Central Onboard System if I am remembering correctly. Wow, from the way back machine deluxe!
Wow, FORTRAN! Anyone remember COBOL?
no, this is a legit picture, ... this is the exact model we currently use at work. Technological advances have allowed us to eliminate fortran (& cobol.) We've modified ours and run Java, Perl, & Win78 as an OS.
My son went to an Army recruiter, told them that he is licensed in some IT stuff, and they said, "oh, well how would you like to work with the most expensive, cutting-edge computer systems in the world?" Then they had him take a simple test on a laptop straight out of the 80's......Go figure...
I guess I'll say A, the Army recuiter. In my junior year of HS, I took the AFVAB (Armed forces Vocational Apptitude Battery) and scored in the 99 percentile. I think my parents still got phone calls 7 years later, I had moved 250 miles away, got married, and had a child.