THE VIDEO SHELF · mechanical analog computers
EEVblog #854 - B52 Bomber Automatic Astro Compass Teardown
Dave Jones of EEVblog tears down a Kollsman MD-1 Automatic Astro Compass, a mechanical analog computer from a B-52 bomber. It is part of a star-tracker inertial navigation system that computes altitude and azimuth.
Why HN readers recommended it
Pointed to when people want to see the cams and gears inside a mechanical navigation computer.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- EEVblog
- Topic
- mechanical analog computers
- Format
- demo
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2017
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Dave Jones of EEVBlog recently tore down an analog navigation computer used on the B52 if you want to see inside a mechanical computer of this type [VIDEO]
kalleboo on Hacker News · 2016-04
In When mechanical analog computers ruled the waves (2014)Eevblog has a teardown of the mechanical analogue computer that drove an astrocompass from a B52 bomber: [VIDEO] So, so many beautiful cams and moving arms...
david-given on Hacker News · 2017-03
In The Dornier DO-960 Analog Computer
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