Reincarnated as an Imperial Prince

Passion for Computers

One of the rooms in the Winter Palace has been repurposed for Alexander's work. It was a newly-installed drafting room, where he spent most of his time working on a new design he'll introduce in this technological dark age alternate world.

Inside the drafting room, Alexander was busy doing business as usual. Drawing on a bond paper that varied in different sizes.

For now, he's designing what would be the first most reliable, and efficient computer in the world.

Leaning over to his paper, Alexander drew across the paper with a T-square straightening the line he had drawn. t's a schematic view of the computer he was designing

The current computer he's working on was as tall as a person and consume a lot of space, similar to the computers that existed in the 1940s and late 1950s.

With a single stroke, he had finally done it.

Alexander stretched his arms outward and wiped the sweat off his forehead with the back of his arm. Even though the weather is cold, he can't help but sweat when he's at work.

"Okay! Twenty redraw to go!" Alexander said enthusiastically but deep inside, he was slowly dying.

The fact that he has to redraw the schematics 20 times is really killing him. Without the Computer-Aided Design software, he'll have to design everything in an old-fashioned way until he makes one.

There is no zoom in or zoom out. Working on complex machinery such as the second generation computers involves small parts that need to be enlarged in order for other engineers to have a clear view of it. To do that, he'll redraw it again.

This process is repetitive and tedious. And that's also the reason why he respected engineers, architects, and designers who weren't born in the computer age where one won't have to suffer from this process.

He'll eliminate that by creating a computer similar to the electronic drafting machine that was created in the late 1950s and a sketchpad, the first computer-aided design software, but in his own version, which will be faster, easy to learn, and cheaper than the old model in his past world.

To give you an idea of how a computer was used in the past, allow me to tell you a story. From the 1930s to the 1950s, engineers communicate with the computers using punched cards which are coded to perform a specific task such as calculating the trajectory of naval artillery to create a firing table during world war. And in the postwar, new technologies such as jet aircraft, helicopters, and new engines are born. Now that is something that can't be done by hand, well they did but there were a lot of mechanical failures and design flaws, even killing a pilot that test-flight a helicopter. The reason helicopter blades were complicated is that the balance weight was installed on the front end of the blade to help with the tilt-up for the pitch angle.

So in the late 1940s. The United States Air Force needed help with ultra-precise wing construction, Sir John T. Parsons pitched his design of a machine that will help them create helicopters rotors and aircraft wings that is entirely made by machines and free of human intervention, he won the contract and was tasked to make it a reality.

And in reality, he did, in 1952 a machine named "Motor Controlled Apparatus for Positioning Machine Tool" was born.

However, there is a limit to that. You see, the machine gets its order from punch cards, which are just a set of instructions, now why am I making a big deal about this? Because numerically controlled machines ran on data from punched cards largely made using a painstaking manual process. They have to develop something new to reduce this tedious process. Introducing an EDM or Electronic Drafting Machine created in 1962.