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Re:Mechanical Computer – Basic Mechanisms in Fire Control Co... by agumonkey on Thursday December 09, 2021 @02:54AM (#29494918)
Yes most analog "computers" were time ordered / streaming.

Hollerith and discrete calculating machines were more about unordered data analysis. Static batch of input, chunk it the way you want, forward, backward.. doesn't matter. Very freeing in a way. I can understand why digital computation wiped the market, no noise and no constraint.. how nice. Until it starts to produce spaghetti bowls and crawling insects.

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