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> Analog computers may seem to be "simple" or "like a toy computer", in fact they are powerful tools that were used during the 1950s and 1960s to design and tes
by naitgacem 3y ago
> Analog computers may seem to be "simple" or "like a toy computer", in fact they are powerful tools that were used during the 1950s and 1960s to design and test systems like ICBMs, supersonic aircraft and spacecraft.
this is indeed a very interesting quote that we -dealing with digital- often tend to forget.
- atoav 3y agoAs someone who builds essentially analog computers (modular synthesizers) this is just as viable a form of computation as anything else. Of course you have common analog pitfalls, like noise, drift, temperature stability, etc. but the results are nearly instant. And of course there is something magical about putting some analog voltages in and getting the result out as yet another analog voltage.