How many of you like HP41C calculators?

From: Brian L. Stuart <blstuart_at_bellsouth.net>
Date: Thu Nov 20 23:27:26 2003

der Mouse wrote:
> ["Brian L. Stuart" <blstuart_at_bellsouth.net>]
>> Now here I do agree with the desire to define a computer in terms of
>> machines that can compute functions that are computable in a
>> Church-Turing sense.
>
> Hm, so you consider "analog computer" to be an oxymoron?

Certainly not an oxymoron. I have a real soft spot for analog
computers. The theorist in me wants to hear the term analog
computer as a whole as describing a computing device in a different
class from the sort we've been discussing. A part of me kind
of wishes a different term had been adopted for these machines,
but differential equation engine just doesn't have the same ring.

Now if I had just had a way to rescue the EIA hybrid machine I
used in college. Of course, I'd have no place to put it, but
we can ignore minor details like that...

Brian L. Stuart
Received on Thu Nov 20 2003 - 23:27:26 GMT