On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, woodelf wrote:
> Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>
> >This is totally questionable. While the design may operate like a digital
> >computer, it uses entirely analog techniques to produce the digital
> >results. Everything the box does is a result of analog circuitry.
> >
> >
> Well so do transistors and most tubes and even IC's. I think relays are
> the only real
> DIGITAL parts out there. :)
What I was getting at is that an analog computer can come up with the
result "1 + 1 = 2" but it's not a digital computer. The Magnavox Odyssey
is an analog beast.
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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