“How did Russian cosmonauts know where they were? The Globus INK (1967) showed the position of their Soyuz spacecraft on a rotating globe. It is an analog computer built from tiny gears. I reverse-engineered the wiring (which inconveniently had been cut) and we powered it up. “

Ken Shirriff (@kenshirriff@oldbytes.space)

That is amazing. I want one for my car.

I saw a story about that earlier. Very cool.

Oh. That's the story I saw

Inside the Globus INK: a mechanical navigation compu...

The plurk app on my iPad shows the mastodon text and video link, but on the web it only shows video

Plurk and Mastodon seem to have a fractious relationship eh