What is the first computer?

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Fri Jun 19 23:01:57 1998

Allison J Parent wrote:
>
> <> Mechanical: man or motor powered, bars cams, wheels
> <> Electric: Relays, steppers, solonoids and contacts has logic tree.
> <> Electronic: uses active devices, tubes, transistors, ICs some types of
> <> diodes and neon filled tubes.
> <
> <A good definition, I could agree, althrough I've seen
> <Electric and Electronic the same, since a relay isn't
> <diferent from a transistor or a tube for the effekt
> <(beside the current).
>
> The distinction for the last two is significant from a design and speed
> standpoint. the design process is very different at the detail level.

Yah, with a relay-based system, a one-hertz clock speed would be
setting a record.
-- 
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
				Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
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