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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:27:53 -0400, Cryptoengineer   
    wrote:   
      
      
      
   >Thanks for catching that. I'm surprised and impressed that 'time on   
   >target' can be achieved without computers, but the idea of getting   
   >with muzzle-loading black powder cannon on a ship at sea was ludicrous.   
      
   The ingenuity of our ancestors, unfettered by modern computers, should   
   never be underestimated.   
      
   As another poster noted, pre-electronic-computer TOT was done using   
   charts, tables, maps and computations. But in war all sorts of things   
   are done that wouldn't make sense in any other context.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)