Re: [MV] What did your company do in the war daddy?

From: Steve Malikoff (MIL-VEH account) (44gpw@phaedra.apana.org.au)
Date: Sun May 06 2001 - 15:12:49 PDT

During the war, IBM made a very interesting gadget called an Odograph which
plotted the position and course of a moving vehicle. It was fitted to jeeps
and trucks. It consisted of a number of boxes of very intricate mechanical
or electromechanical machinery, and its output was on an XY-plotter (or
what looks like one).
I took a couple of photos of one that was on display at last year's Swap
Meet held by the Military Jeep Club of Queensland:
        http://home.primus.com.au/alec/ibm_odograph1.jpg
        http://home.primus.com.au/alec/ibm_odograph2.jpg

Steve.
steven@phaedra.apana.org.au

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