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Article #1102Re: CDC slowdown / TV computers (Was: Re: Burroughs 203)
From: da... Anthony A. Datri
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 17:10
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 17:10
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>And in this B&W science-fiction movie ("When Worlds Collide" ?), a 'differential
>analyzer' is used to perform some giant calculation. The machine was a huge
>mechanical calculator, something like Babbage's analytical engine.
As I noted here a while ago, "When Worlds Collide" had a "Bush [Busch?]
Differential Anaylzer", which was an actual analog computer done by
Vannevar Bush [double sp?]. I believe MIT had one, as well an Army
lab that used it for ballistics stuff. Notice how many of these early
machines (like ENIAC) were used for ballistics?
As I understand it, the Analytical Engine would have been a digital, not
analog, machine.
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