CX wrote:It had been reactivated and refit with newer technology in the decades before its last decommissioning. The last time was during the Gulf War, so it probably had at least late '80s/early '90s tech by the time they made a museum out of her.
Yes, so the ship has some pretty high-tech equipment. That R2D2-looking white thing up on the upper balcony of the ship is the computer that runs the antiaircraft guns. There were cruise missles. But that glowing see-through board is low tech. It's a peice of plastic on which the positions of all the other ships and troops or whatever are written as the information comes in. The writer stands behind the board and must write backwards for the guy sitting in front of the board controling all the action. It was used up till the ship was decommissioned. You will see the word IRAQ on the map.
Which actually kinda scares me because I haven't even been trying to lose weight and the main item on my menu is chocolate. 
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I find them amusing, so I sho some of them here (the quality isn't very good, because they're old and my scanner isn't the best):
