In the yards in Sasebo, ca. Jul 1970. The Tech Reps take apart NIC while the OcUnit 3 CO, LCDR John Hammer, looks on. The two stacks of equipment behind them are the cabinets of the old Sperry Univac NAVDAC MK I, no longer in use but probably rusted in place. Sid Mitman from the Naval Applied Science Lab (NASL) is on the left. Thanks to Chet Headley and Jack Keenan for identifying some of the crewman in this album.
The two cabinet stacks on either side of the crewman in the yellow shirt are the old Sperry NAVDAC Mk I. This computer is no longer in use, and has been replaced as NAVDAC (the Navigation Data Assimilation Computer) by a Bunker-Ramo CP677.
Chet Headley, GI (General Instruments) rep, on the left. Vince Muldari, GI, seated. Right in yellow shirt, only right arm visible - Ray Shunk, GI. This space is Sonar, one deck below NIC. SASS (Ships Array Sonar System) was installed here.
Ray Shunk, GI, standing. (We last saw this Ray in a Discotheque in Valetta, Malta. What's he doing here?) Again, this space is Sonar, not NIC. The equipment to the right is part of the SASS control console. Our Sonar watchstanders sat where the guy in the white shirt is sitting. The door to Hydroplot is behind Ray. The entry door to the space is behind and to the right of the photographer.
Grover O. Bucklew of NAVOCEANO. Pipe smoke used to be good for electronics!
On the far left you can just make out the front panel of a Buker Ramo CP-677. This computer inherited the mantle of NAVDAC from the old Sperry NAVDAC MK I that we used on Bowditch. Tom Scally (Sperry Tech Rep) on the left and George Glatzel from NASL is seated on the right in the white shirt.
John Handal from Bunker Ramo, later NASL, contemplating manufacturer's PMs. Behind him and to the left are signals distribution panels and switches, which route signals from equipment in other spaces to and from the equipment in NIC. Notice also the indicator lights and fuse holders. I don't remember what the cabinets on the right are, perhaps precision 60 cycle power.
Reading the entrails of the Sperry Mk3 Mod3 SINS, Ron Smolinski, the Sperry SINS rep
Larry Schaff, Sperry SINS Tech Rep
IC1 Stu Miller threathens the MK19 with a screwdriver.
The Sperry MK3 MOD3 SINS binnacle. The binnacle houses the stable table, which signals deviations from the local vertical, or excessive course changes, by rolling over (heh...heh..heh!).
The AN/BRN-3 satellite navigation receiver with CP-677 computer. Yes, ALL FOUR CABINETS! The Bunker Ramo CP-677A/BRN-3 computer is the first cabinet on the left. The next cabinet is the CV-1296/BRN-3 Data Processor. The two cabinets on the right are the Westinghouse R-1132/BRN-3 Receiver.