Heathkit EC-1

From: Doug Coward <mranalog_at_attbi.com>
Date: Fri May 2 13:35:00 2003

  Ethan wrote:
> How does a resistive sheet computer work?

  Just a quick note for now.
 Resistive sheets belong to a category of analog
computing called network analyzers.

> In the same vein (pun intended)... how would fluidic computers
> stack up? Digital? Analog? Mixed?

 Fluidics (or fluid logic) can have both analog
and digital processes. You can perform boolean
operations, but you also can have fluid amplifers.
  --Doug
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