Re: Analogue computing

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From: bert
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 21:49

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On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 19:30:12 UTC, Gareth's Downstairs Computer  wrote:
> We certainly covered the principles in my
> electronics degree ('69 - '72), but AIUI
> there was a pre-war mechanical analogue
> computer made with the Meccano erector set.

Yes, indeed.  One unit of it was on display 
in the South Kensington Science Museum the 
last time I was there.  There's a picture 
of it on pp. 60-61 of Christopher Evans' 
splendid book "The Making of the Micro".

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