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I don't have skin in the game but the electromechanical computers of the previous eras were all superb and solid yet digital electronics wiped the market away.
by agumonkey 4y ago
I don't have skin in the game but the electromechanical computers of the previous eras were all superb and solid yet digital electronics wiped the market away. Making a simple analogy (sic) I'd say the smart grid thing might be a glimpse of where society is going. Or it might be a marketing fad.
- lazide 4y agoMechanical computers were ‘superb and solid’? What are you talking about?
- agumonkey 4y agoEver seen the self aiming devices used in choppers during the war ?
- lazide 4y agoWhich war? There have been a few, like the Norden bomb site, but they were pretty far from anything we’d consider a general purpose computer. They also were not as accurate or reliable as was initially expected.