Computing History - Vintage 1970 U.S. Navy film “NAVY MAN” shows 1960’s Computer hardware including the Naval Tactical Data System (Univac NTDS), Radar and Sonar electronics, Missile launching and tracking controls, and a wide variety of Navy career positions. Shows jet fighter aircraft taking off from USS Independence aircraft carrier (CV/CVA-62), and Various types of Navy technology and operational activities. Great historical material. - Includes brief but rare footage of the UNIVAC computers part of the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS). NTDS was a computerized information processing system developed by the U.S. Navy in the 1950s and first deployed in the early 1960s for use in combat ships. Univac delivered 241 of these units to the Navy and Foreign Military Sales. The film has some rough spots, but overall very good content. {The first 30 seconds of credits have been slightly edited}. - Uploaded for historical value only. (B&W version, 26 minutes)

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USS Ault (DD-698) was an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer [ Ссылка ]

USS Independence (CV/CVA-62) aircraft carrier was the fourth and final member of the Forrestal class of conventionally powered supercarriers.
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The VIP Club’s web site on computers and the UNIVAC CP-642B
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Ed Thelen’s Computer History Site on the NTDS (UNIVAC)
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