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From: Gene Wirchenko
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 20:07

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On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:56:55 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot
<ste...@eircom.net> wrote:

>On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 07:09:07 -0400
>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.

     Knowing about a different way can help sometimes.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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