Yup your on the money with that. For example late 80's was when i was in had a computer to run since i was the young guy they said you figure it out. It was for target motion analysis for a fire solution on target for sonar bearing contacts. Well anyway got it figured out was using to plot solutions & told the Chief hey i got the program to track all the solutions for the targets. His answer was well thats great but that piece of gear is obsolete a different computer was being installed instead. The computer i was using had processors that we didn't see in the public for about 20yrs so say start of 2000 and that was considered outdated WTF i was like can i take it home after deployment this is so fast compared to apple 2 i was using at the time & mine was actually decent lol.
Also fiber optics the type the had is the hybrid type we have in public that isn't pure glass. Its a plastic glass composite. I spliced fiber after the military & didn't see that type until mid 2005 so a waaaayyyyy long time before the public got it.
Also touch screens where around late 80's just it was an all red matrix probably because of being on the sub and light red is the best in low light no light situation. They where phasing out that particular model also so i'm sure they where getting ones like we see today on tablets back in the late 80's
