A little history from the Fires Bulletin and a short clip of what is now a museum piece: The M18 Field Artillery Digital Automatic Computer (FADAC), known as “Freddie,” FADAC was the first battery fire direction computer. Weighing approximately 200 lbs., it was transistorized, solid-state electronic digital computer for automatic computing and displaying of firing data. It was capable of providing firing data for a battery of any type of field artillery weapons, including mortars, guns, howitzer