Franklin F. Snyder
Q ..
Well, I think two years ago they came up with a bunch of bigger probabilities, didn't
they, in the Mid-West there, that they had never thought of?
A ..
Yes.
Q ..
But mainly what you were doing was making models, weren't you? You were
developing models of rainfall and floods that they could use? So if you were to do
that today, it's all on computers, what you were doing.
A
I'm not sure that I can.
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Q ..
What I'm saying is you basically developed the models?
A ..
Well, yes, we didn't call it that.
Q ..
You didn't call it that, but that's what it is.
A ..
That's the popular term now, I guess. But we have another story when we get to
computers.
Q ..
All this was done by hand calculation and by what, adding machines, what do they
call them, calculating machines?
A ..
Yes, I'm trying to think. We did not have the hand-held calculators. That I know.
It was done with slide rules.
Q ..
Slide rules mainly?
A
Yes. That is the normal calculations. I'm sure everybody used slide rules, but
whether they used machines to back it up or not, I don't know. I don't think so,
because the slide rules accuracy, generally, was good enough for most computations.
Technical Representative, European Theater of Operations,
Q ..
You weren't going to multiple decimal points, I don't think on those calculations.
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