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Forum: Military Aviation

8th Apr 2013, 17:17

Replies: 41

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Posted By Fox3WheresMyBanana

For dispersed ops, 1989 on the F3, an excess of...

For dispersed ops, 1989 on the F3, an excess of time on people's hands led to the conclusion that a nuke strike EMP would demagnetise a similar (smaller) ops board on the wall at Stornoway. The...

Forum: Military Aviation

8th Apr 2013, 13:42

Replies: 41

BRAMIS

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Posted By Fox3WheresMyBanana

I used to dream of Cards..... By 1982 at Uni...

I used to dream of Cards.....

By 1982 at Uni I was back to using a paper tape reader and writing a 5K program directly in machine code......

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Forum: Military Aviation

8th Apr 2013, 12:52

Replies: 41

BRAMIS

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Posted By Fox3WheresMyBanana

They had. Calculating up to +/-128 requires 8-bit...

They had. Calculating up to +/-128 requires 8-bit computing, calculating up to 2000 requires 16-bit computing. Takes a lot more memory, time, cost etc (at the time) I started programming at school in...

Forum: Military Aviation

7th Apr 2013, 22:00

Replies: 41

BRAMIS

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Posted By Fox3WheresMyBanana

Still did in 1988. Used to take half an hour or...

Still did in 1988. Used to take half an hour or more to get a take-off time out of them up at Golf Dispersal. Mucked up planning somewhat. Then someone did a...

Forum: Military Aviation

6th Apr 2013, 18:00

Replies: 41

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Posted By Fox3WheresMyBanana

Yup, OC 5 was so chuffed I got a free holiday in...

Yup, OC 5 was so chuffed I got a free holiday in Cyprus (contraceptives supplied)*
In the days before Intelligence Officers, fighter squadrons used intelligent officers

*Private Plane

Forum: Military Aviation

6th Apr 2013, 16:05

Replies: 41

BRAMIS

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Posted By Fox3WheresMyBanana

I remember a TACEVAL, Coningsby, early '90s,...

I remember a TACEVAL, Coningsby, early '90s, where the SOMA was gradually degraded by some DiStaff SOMA wizz to reduce our ability to operate. It had no effect, even when he removed it entirely and...

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