Should digital computers be included among unusual wartime inventions?
Short answerThey are important enough for a general list, although their oddness is less clear.
NotesDigital computers would qualify for a general list of important wartime inventions, although they are judged insufficiently odd for this question. Follow-up recollections mention a mechanical ternary computer said to have been built at Bletchley Park and a dual-binary arrangement. Early American computers are also said to have suffered damage through unsuitable power arrangements. The machine identities and several technical details remain indistinct, so these recollections do not establish a precise sequence of computer development.