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What started your journey into analog computers ? I remember seeing some navy videos from the 40s explaining self tracking guns (through projected geometry par
by agumonkey 3y ago
What started your journey into analog computers ?
I remember seeing some navy videos from the 40s explaining self tracking guns (through projected geometry parts) and was so enamoured by it. Since then I found out about hydraulic and pneumatic electromechanic devices.
Also, don't you find that programmers are fighting the imperative / von neumann model to recreate what those machines were ? systems of coupled parts "reacting" to each others (looking at you web world).
- kens 3y agoWhat started my journey? Mainly that a collector gave us this CADC to examine, and it turned out to be more interesting (and complicated) than I expected. As far as programming models, yes, the imperative model isn't a good fit here. You can think of the CADC as "purely functional" since the outputs are direct functions of the inputs.