A fact from MOBIDIC appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 August 2009 ( check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the US Army's Signal Corps built the MOBIDIC semi-trailer mounted computer to route battlefield information, but put it to good use as a logistics system instead? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/August.

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I think it is just a minor error in an abbreviation, but the increase in add time from 14 microseconds to 44 msec seems incredible.

The dual-CPU MOBIDIC B .... Although the machine's speed was slower overall (adds were 44 msec),...

I think 44 microseconds was meant. The abbreviation msec is usually read as milliseconds. The abbreviation symbol for "micro" is the Greek letter μ (small mu). When Greek letters are not available sometimes the Roman letter u is used instead.

-- AJim ( talk) 03:08, 10 August 2009 (UTC) reply

Yes, I just checked the Weik reference, adds are listed as 42 μsec. I will change the article.

-- AJim ( talk) 03:12, 10 August 2009 (UTC) reply

"1959 Computer - MOBIDIC Mobile Digital Computer U.S. Army - FIELDATA project". 28 May 2016. -- 89.25.210.104 ( talk) 23:46, 22 February 2018 (UTC) reply