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Article #4718Re: Power Off
From: ger...
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 17:27
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 17:27
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In article <10...@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, lin...@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
>
> And then there was the analog computer that was used around the
> turn of the century to predict tides in the English Channel.
>
> To check its operation, you turned the crank backwards, until you had
> drawn a tidal chart for the _previous_ few days. If it was right,
> then the machine didn't need maintenance.
>
> This thing was eventually automated: they put an electic motor on the
> crank. Eventually they replaced it with a CDC 6600.
The analog computer or the electric motor? :-)
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