Yes, it is stored in mechanical form! Who said storage needed to be digital or tape (paper or mylar)?
Hidden Figures is great, even though there are some location errors in it.? Only we who grew up in Virginia would notice.?
Frank DuVal
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On 2/23/2024 10:02 PM, greenboxmaven via groups.io wrote:
Is a differential analyzer a form of analog computer? There is a good scene of one operating in the beginning of the film "When Worlds Collide". Other amazing analog computers are the mechanical fire control computers for battleships and submarines, and the Norden bombsite. Despite all of these, can they correctly be called computers? The definition of a computer I was told some time ago is "A control or calculating apparatus with a stored operating system"
?? Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY
On 2/23/24 18:30, EJP via groups.io wrote:
When you think about it, the analogue computer is really a Laplace Transform.
EJP
