27 Nov
2017
27 Nov
'17
1:47 p.m.
On 11/26/2017 10:48 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
With the big Philbrick analog computer, I tell people how it's a bespoke system used as a teaching tool in the MIT mechanical engineering department from 1958-1970.
Yeah but in the 50s/60s nearly every analog computer was "built" from a "menu" of possible components. There weren't many standard configurations for anything, because the type of problem to be solved directly and specifically dictated the circuitry required, unlike digital computers past a certain point. Suit yourself of course, but I'm not sure presenting it as a bespoke system really has any value, as all of them were. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA