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Simple Computer: Potential applications of the computer made possible by microelectronics include a small computer in every home or a pocket computer terminal that can be connected to a powerful central computer via the telephone. Such devices may be used to solve our numerical problems (e.g., income tax, or our bank balance) or as a creative tool to relate our knowledge and experiences to our future actions.
And what of the computer? Olof Johannesson's 1966 novel, The Tale of the Big Computer (which first appeared in an American edition in 1968), offers a history of the development of computers as told by an advanced computer of the future. In an unemotional, utterly convincing essay, it describes the gradual obsolescence and disappearance of its creator, man.
Airborne Fire Control.—Two basic types of radar fire control systems are used in aircraft : those for the control of offensive armament, such as the rockets or guided missiles of interceptor planes; and those for the defensive guns of bombers. In both cases the radar tracks the target aircraft and sends its data to an automatic computer. In an interceptor fire control system, shown in Fig. 14, the computer calculates the course that the interceptor should fly to reach the firing point and presents simple computer steering instructions to the pilot on his scope.
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