here is one of my actual computer shop in while in the navy.
the guy in the photo is one of the DS it repair techs
this photo is circa 1978
Did you ever get to play the multi-player "star trek" game the NTDS systems had?
No did not get to play much with games on it.
I did load 1000's and 1000's and 1000's of key punch cards on that card reader.
Best shift was 11 pm to 7 am. We did a long printout it took 3 hours to print. You could pull a chair up to the printer put the cover down and take a nap while it printed. If it jammed it would stop and you would wake up and fix the jam. If it finished the job it would stop you would wake up and take the 3000 page print out get it ready to distribute the next morning. The computer shop had multiple locks as it was a secure room.
So I would basically get to take a 3 hour nap every night I worked. I would knock off work at 7am get some breakfast in the ships galley and take a bus to the beach. Sleep a few more hours while getting a nice tan and then come back to the ship at 4pm hang out with my buddies and go to work at 11pm. Since my ship was a repair ship we would stay docked more then we sailed. I got to do that routine above for about 13 months in a row while at San Diego.
