KØHB wrote:
wrote

btw, the "Ordnance Corps" are the nice folks who take care of things
like how to do artillery barrages....

Nope. The Ordnance Corps counts and stores the 'bullets' and such chores.. The
Artillery folks take care of pointing and shooting 'em.

But somebody has to tell them *how* and *where* to point 'em and shoot
'em, right?

From what it says in

"Electronic Computers Within the Ordnance Corps"

Index:
http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/comphist/61ordnance/index.html

the computation/preparation of firing tables was the primary official
reason for the design and construction of ENIAC.

Did the Historical Officer at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds get it
wrong?

Sunnuvagun!

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73 de Jim, N2EY