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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
And for torpedo settings, there was a direct connection between TDC and torpedoes to input gyro angle, speed, depth, etc. But that was always verified and backed up by the torpedo room crew, who could manually set each torpedo if necessary.
At all times each torpedo had to be set separately. This was all mechanical stuff. No RAM, no SD cards, no floppy drives even! Even the TDC was a mechanical analog computer, using screws manipulating physical adjustable size triangles for trigonometry calculations. It was a work of primitive genius beyond our imaginations.
To input numbers you turned input cranks for the different parameters. There were auto inputs for sonar, radar and periscope. The real TDC was more versatile by far than our game TDC, which could use a shot of steroids but will never get one until another game company comes around.
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Was it like in the game? I mean the TDC settings for tube 1 were set. Then a selection button or knob would be set for Tube 2 then all settings would revert to default and would have to be selected again...or just as RR stated, the crew would set that in the torpedo itself?