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Enjoyed this post. It’s interesting to me that they actually refer to vacuum tubes as little brain cells as well. It’s not clear to me how far back the compute
by medler 3y ago
Enjoyed this post. It’s interesting to me that they actually refer to vacuum tubes as little brain cells as well.
It’s not clear to me how far back the computer-as-brain analogy goes, but as far back as 1833 you have Babbage’s difference engine being described as a “thinking machine” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine
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- detourdog 3y agoI have some Autonetics documentation for D17-B that disscusses running all the inputs and all the outputs to a single module called the central processing unit.
- anyfoo 3y agoIn old German movies and documentaries, “Elektronengehirn” (literally “electron brain”) is a term I’ve encountered a lot. It is unknown nowadays.
- glhaynes 3y agoI've seen quite a bit of USA stuff from ~the 1940s–1950s (maybe even some of the 1960s?) use the term "electronic brain" interchangeably with "computer".
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