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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gorg" data-source="post: 8246091" data-attributes="member: 7029501">TOTALLY off topic here, but your post reminded me of something I experienced a year or two ago.  My friends and I were in Buffalo, NY  touring the museum ships there.   Among other things, this museum has a WWII Destroyer, a WW II Submarine, and a WW II Cruiser that commissioned too late to see any actual combat, and ended up being rebuilt from the main deck up as one of the first guided missile cruisers ever.  While going through the submarine- the USS Croaker- I happened upon a fairly young father and his 9-10 yr old son.  They were in the Bridge area, looking at all the controls for driving the boat.   The young boy simply did not understand what he was looking at- analog dials, levers, and wheels, lol.   I got a kick out of listening to his dad try to explain their purpose, and how they were used.   The utter lack of the digital computer technology he grew up with just boggled his mind!  That's when it struck me:  These ships were designed in the late 1930's- using nothing more than paper, pencils, protractors, slide rules, and solid engineering knowlege.  And they were built in the very early 1940s using methods and machinery far older than that!   These vessels are incredible feats of engineering, and building- and we built them way back then, and used them to do incredibly epic things with crews as young as 16 or 17!!      If you have the opportunity,  go on one of these tours of a Museum ship.  Worth every penny!  Anyhow, yeah, I know what you mean about the tactile feel thing  vs  modern digital feel.  They are two very different experiences.</blockquote>

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