OS Past and Present

Friday, 1 March, 2013

Nice pair of contrasting videos about OS - the first a modern promo video from the OS itself which is very glossy but actually tells you very little about the organisation and the second from Pathe news in the 1950s which is cringingly dated, such as “It used to take two men a whole year to do the map making mathematics that these adding machines and electronic computers can do in an afternoon with a girl to help!” However it does show you the full map making process in 3 minutes - quite a feat!

Swansea Trip: 1:40 shows the use f plane tabling!

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