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Vintage Computers Any vintage computer systems, calculators, video games etc., but with an emphasis on 1980s and earlier equipment. |
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6th Feb 2019, 11:21 am | #21 |
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Re: What is it - Enigma related??
Looks like RN blue or power station blue to me.
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6th Feb 2019, 11:37 am | #22 |
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Re: What is it - Enigma related??
I have been itching to speculate that it is part of the control gear for a naval table-top type gun laying computer.. But how would that get into a car boot sale?
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6th Feb 2019, 11:43 am | #23 |
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Re: What is it - Enigma related??
It is a light blue, slightly greenish in tint, quite like some paint we have labeled "sage"
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6th Feb 2019, 12:46 pm | #24 | |
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Via surplus sale, someone's death and a house clearance would be a likely route........
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6th Feb 2019, 4:43 pm | #25 |
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6th Feb 2019, 5:24 pm | #26 |
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It manages somehow be far more intimidating and claustrophobic than 'Fuselage interior green' which I had to mix myself for a 1:72 scale Lancaster, because bizarrely Revell don't produce anything even close!
Until someone mentioned power stations it hadn't clicked- it is quite close to the colour of the old control panels at Bradwell. Dave |
6th Feb 2019, 8:40 pm | #27 |
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There is navy blue, a dark blue and naval blue a light greyish blue that ships get painted in.
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6th Feb 2019, 10:06 pm | #28 |
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Thanks for the distinction between navy blue and naval blue - that's something new I've learned.
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6th Feb 2019, 10:30 pm | #29 |
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To add to the portfolio, as Stockden mentions, there's also the 'light Admiralty grey' equipment colour, which is not grey at all, but a light green with a bluish tinge.
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6th Feb 2019, 11:03 pm | #30 | |
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I used to install turbine monitoring equipment in power stations and that was a bluer tint. Peter |
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6th Feb 2019, 11:58 pm | #31 |
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I'm no expert on this, but I recall that in the 1940s and 1950s, the navy used some remarkable fire control computers to ensure correct range and bearing of the main guns on a frigate or destroyer. Essentially, the computer would be the link between optical and radar directors and the guns themselves.
As this was before the advent of digital computers, analogue processing (valve-based of course) was combined with ingenious electromechanical counting devices to do the necessary sums. I just wonder whether you've picked up a component of one of these systems. There's a general trainee's guide to fire control at https://maritime.org/doc/firecontrol/index.htm . Martin
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