TIL: mercury delay lines. Used to work on math for designing H-bomb. Mercury. Filled. Tubes. For computing. WTF?!?pic.twitter.com/THp02suDwV
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Analog computers were not uncommon in the 1940s and 1950s. Wasn't always clear which was better. Russia did a lot w/analog.
Pretty interesting. Basically used in the way we'd use RAM today, apparently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory …
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I was thinking more generally about analog vs digital computers. I recall ragging Soviets
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I have only read much on this in context of space race. Early Sov space cpus were analog, could do a lot, and
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