This analog computer reminds me of a great book: https://www.amazon.ca/Mind-Play-Shannon-Invented-Information/dp/147676669X https://www.amazon.ca/Mind-Play-Shan

This analog computer reminds me of a great book: https://www.amazon.ca/Mind-Play-Shannon-Invented-Information/dp/147676669X https://www.amazon.ca/Mind-Play-Shannon-Invented-Information... that talks about a similar computer at MIT. I find all the pre transistor computation really interesting. Shannon was doing some really early work on what was, at the time, thought of as AI. Putting a mouse through a maze with movable walls. All with just circuits, no CPU. The circuits were not fixed, they had some branching based on phone switch tech (IIRC).