[flavius29663]

I remember seeing one of those computers on Wisconsin, but I only saw it after decommission, as a museum piece. Those computers are truly mind boggling, if you're reading this and you're close to Norfolk you should visit battleship Wisconsin.

[ricktdotorg]

same goes for being in SoCal and going to visit the USS Iowa in San Pedro. it also has similar mechanical computers, it's a fantastic day spent clambering around the ship. sometimes they do "stay overnight in the bunks" nights, I can highly recommend it!

[teqsun]

For anyone along the Northeastern corridor, the USS New Jersey in Camden is another well-preserved Iowa class museum ship.

[mrguyorama]

The Battleship New Jersey has a good youtube channel where the head curator walks you through some things.

https://www.youtube.com/@BattleshipNewJersey

They also sell broken parts of the ship that they fix up as souvenirs, like the entire deck's worth of wooden planking, and for $1000 you can take a tour where the mildly charismatic head curator takes you into the smallest and hardest to reach parts of the ship!

Or fire a 5 inch gun, you know, if that's more your speed.

[jabl]

> Or fire a 5 inch gun, you know, if that's more your speed.

Depends on what the target is.

[teqsun]

For $1k it's just a blank round.

But if you donate $1M, you're allowed to shoot the USS New Jersey's curator Jordan with an HE shell from the 16" guns.

[LgWoodenBadger]

If you watch the channel you'd know it was HC - high capacity.