Analog vs Digital devices, was Magnetics

From: Eric J. Korpela <korpela_at_ellie.ssl.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu Nov 9 10:35:45 2000

> While the Norden bombsight was smaller, etc., it would be stretching it by a
> large degree to compare it to a computer.. I'm fairly certain Allison was
> referring to the Mark I...

It's not stretching it at all to consider the Norden to be an analog
computer. I'm not really sure how it could be considered to be otherwise.

Eric
Received on Thu Nov 09 2000 - 10:35:45 GMT

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