15 Feb
2008
15 Feb
'08
7:12 p.m.
William Donzelli wrote:
A 1900-era relay computer would be big, expensive,
suck juice like
crazy, and be stupidly slow, but I bet it would work. I can envision
setting up batch jobs, running them, then seeing how many cycles were
used, so between jobs workers could do preventative maintenance on the
relays if some number of cycles was reached.
That is true with even modern machines.
Ta-Da ... Zuse 3
http://ed-thelen.org/Munich/MunichTripReport.html#Zuse3
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Will
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