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Re: [OM] What is a computer?

Subject: Re: [OM] What is a computer?
From: dreammoose <dreammoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:15:37 -0700
I built one of those around 1967. I was working at a place that sold and serviced Heathkits and I occasionally built them for others. I built the analog computer for some researcher at Cal. It was all hand wiring with no circuit boards, one tube for each amplifier circuit. Fun to play with with a 'scope.

Moose

William Sommerwerck wrote:

Electronic analog computers were used for many years until digital computers
became fast enough to handle integral and differential equations with
reasonable accuracy. Heath even sold an analog computer kit, ca. 1960.



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