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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:56

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J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I took that course a few years later and we had an electronic analog
> computer, from TI IIRC.  It was kind of fun but by the time I got my
> first engineering job digital was "in" and just suggesting the use of
> analog anything marked one as some kind of reactionary, at least in
> the place I worked.

	Makes sense, once a digital computer is fast enough to solve a
given problem it will do a more repeatable and reliable job than an
analogue computer.

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