#analogcomputers

2024-07-08

New blog post!

☆Analog Computing: The Next Tech Bubble?☆

This came up on my YouTube rec's and there's a text article to go with it, and of course from there, I got other stuff on the topic, because the algorithm is a merciless thing.
To set this straight, there are reasons this looks like the beginnings of the next bu... blog.bluestarcreations.net/ran

#RantOfTheMoment #analog #AnalogComputers #computers #computing #hardware #tech #TechBubble

Computer History Museum 🇸🇮muzej
2024-06-17
2024-06-03

"[In 1687] Isaac Newton explained how the gravitational forces of the sun and the moon caused [the tides]. Nine decades later, the French astronomer and mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace suggested that the tides could be represented as harmonic oscillations. And a century after that, Thomson used that concept to design the first machine for predicting them."

spectrum.ieee.org/tide-predict

#LordKelvin #WilliamThomson #Tides #AnalogComputers #Engineering #Technology #Calculations

2023-12-12

The steam engine installed at the Woburn (Mass) Water Works back in 1908 is working again.

A steam engine that the long-serving Woburn mayor didn't know about, when the restoration work started.

Here is an hour-long deep dive into how this steam engine is maintained, operates, and how it gets started up:

youtube.com/watch?v=nBImv1mlcM

#History #history #retrocomputers #analogcomputers #Steam #SteamEngines #Woburn

Computer History Museum 🇸🇮muzej
2023-09-11

Yes, we also house analog computers within our collection! This Czechoslovak computer, MEDA 41TC was built to handle complex mathematical equations involving differential equations, integrals, and various other mathematical operations.

Analog computer photo
2019-09-23

Fun with analog computers. Ken Shirriff on tacking the Simulators Inc. model 240 analog computer and reverse engineering its op-amp stage so he can get it back into working order.

#Technology #Engineering #Computers #AnalogComputers

righto.com/2019/09/reverse-eng

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