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Re: ball cannon???

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Originally Posted by XXShadowXX View Post
This a great point. I would like to remind people that military could hit targets 23 miles away with there battleships in the 1940's using vacuum tubes, and punch cards
uhhh....I think that was done with mechanical computers and look up tables, since punch cards were used mostly for inventory control and the first vacuum tube computer was way way too top secret to let it go out in the field.
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