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Old 21st August 2014 | 01:58
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John Eacott
 
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Originally Posted by Gallinazo
By any chance, does anyone remember an example of using it?
Far too complicated for the front seat, it was all we could do to manage a conventional Dalton and (maybe) a plotting board. The workings of such esoteric technological devices were jealously guarded by the lookers down in the darkness.

And they were welcome to them

Vectac: now there's a term that I'd forgotten, what fun that was on a dark and stormy night with a 100ft cloudbase and a Shackleton trying to understand the radio calls!
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