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The 1936 Spotlight Golf Machine
- sandworm101 8y agoWow. Not turing complete, but definitely a computation device imho. It measures and compiles data automatically, then exports that to a visual display. And it uses electricity. That sounds like a computer to me. If not, this is at least an arcade machine/simulator. We would have to say then that the electronic arcade machine predates the first "computer".
- cr0sh 8y agoThis is the museum mentioned: http://www.ausgolfmuseum.com/media/ http://www.ausgolfmuseum.com/media/ You can find more pictures and a writeup on the machine there - it's a very interesting system, certainly!