Analog vs Digital devices, was Magnetics

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Thu Nov 9 11:17:42 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.

Its a single purpose device. Computers tend to be flexible. I would call it
more of a calculator, or really a mechanical compensator.
Received on Thu Nov 09 2000 - 11:17:42 GMT