A primmer to mechanical computers

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch) 01/13/2020 at 15:09 • Filed to: Im learnding

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I don’t know if this is new to anyone else, but I’ve never understood how you build a mechanical computer...how do you solve math problems with gears? A dive down the rabbit hole of navy fire control computers opened my eyes.

Simply fascinating! Immediate calculations, zero electricity required, extremely robust and as accurate as the number of variables you can feed into it. limited scope? Gigantic? non-programable? Who cares. This blew my mind apart.

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > HammerheadFistpunch 01/13/2020 at 15:21

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Added to watch list! You should check out Alfa’s SPICA injection system . As far as I am aware it is one of the few all mechanical computers fitted to consumer products.

jimz > HammerheadFistpunch 01/13/2020 at 15:23

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On two occasions I have been asked, — “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come o ut?” In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 01/13/2020 at 15:29

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That does look and sound exactly like a pre-common rail diesel injection.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > HammerheadFistpunch 01/13/2020 at 15:36

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It’s sort of a shame we completely gave up on analog computers... There are certain “problems” for which they gave great answers- and were super-reliable.

this may, or may not, have been one of them...