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Perhaps electromechanical is in reference to something like the enigma machine. Characters light up on a board, but the character that lights up is chosen by a
by unlikelymordant 10y ago
Perhaps electromechanical is in reference to something like the enigma machine. Characters light up on a board, but the character that lights up is chosen by a purely mechanical process that selects the current path. I'm just speculating.
- lutusp 10y ago> Perhaps electromechanical is in reference to something like the enigma machine. Yes, I agree, good example, but that also predates vacuum tubes as computing/logical elements. So the temporal order is still wrong. Maybe the author didn't really intend that the list be temporally ordered -- but it seems as though that was the intent.
- dogma1138 10y agoI think by relay they are referring to reed switches: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_relay https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_relay Which were used for memory and other computing tasks after tubes were already obsolete.