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Henry Wood · 09-28-09, 08:04 PM

I remember a thing called "Silent Service". I was on leave at the time and recall from a faulty memory puts it about 1980??? maybe??? I was still an old codger then and had no chance of ever being young again but many personnel were very surprised to hear their CO had a computer at home! The memory kind of fails about then - could it possibly have been a tape for my Amstrad computer? Or even a floppy for my very first PC? I do remember it showed a guy walking/moving about in a central control room, and I do recall having so many difficulties with that sailor that I very soon threw in the towel and decided it was much easier to deal with real people rather than this bearded, obnoxious person.

Then came:

SILENT HUNTER >>>>>> ping! ping! ping!

SHII >>>> ping-a!... ping-a!....ping-a!.... followed by

SHIII >>> PING!...PING!...PING!...

"Now you may well laugh, but when your ASDIC hits a submarine, you will then hear: PING...A! ... PING...AA!... PING...AAA! - ... at the same time it may be a whale or a shoal of fish! ... "

[From the novel & film "The Cruel Sea", which I constantly re-read and keep watching again, knowing I will find a little something new each time I read it and see it, even if it's just to console dear old Lt. Cmdr. Ericson with a glass of gin after his catastrophic passage through the floating survivors. That scene always brings a tear to my eye.]

09-28-09, 08:04 PM	#14
Henry Wood Sparky Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: UK Posts: 150 Downloads: 57 Uploads: 0	I remember a thing called "Silent Service". I was on leave at the time and recall from a faulty memory puts it about 1980??? maybe??? I was still an old codger then and had no chance of ever being young again but many personnel were very surprised to hear their CO had a computer at home! The memory kind of fails about then - could it possibly have been a tape for my Amstrad computer? Or even a floppy for my very first PC? I do remember it showed a guy walking/moving about in a central control room, and I do recall having so many difficulties with that sailor that I very soon threw in the towel and decided it was much easier to deal with real people rather than this bearded, obnoxious person. Then came: SILENT HUNTER >>>>>> ping! ping! ping! SHII >>>> ping-a!... ping-a!....ping-a!.... followed by SHIII >>> PING!...PING!...PING!... "Now you may well laugh, but when your ASDIC hits a submarine, you will then hear: PING...A! ... PING...AA!... PING...AAA! - ... at the same time it may be a whale or a shoal of fish! ... " [From the novel & film "The Cruel Sea", which I constantly re-read and keep watching again, knowing I will find a little something new each time I read it and see it, even if it's just to console dear old Lt. Cmdr. Ericson with a glass of gin after his catastrophic passage through the floating survivors. That scene always brings a tear to my eye.]