7 Nov
2000
7 Nov
'00
8:10 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Green" <mark(a)cs.ualberta.ca>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: "Basics of Analog Computers" book
The last time I looked tubes were analogue devices. One of their
main uses is as amplifiers, which is definitely an analogue function.
If I remember correctly, one of the main problems with early tube
computers (1940s and 1950s), was actually getting the tubes to behave
like digital devices.
Point taken on the nature of tubes, but they were primarily used in
computers as bipolar devices, weren't they? The fact that a computer
contains analogue devices doesn't make it an analogue computer.
Mark.