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Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] What is a computer?
From: "W. J. Liles" <wliles@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 21:13:43 -0500
Scott Gomez wrote:
> 
> As were fire control computers on most US warships in the 1970s.
> 
> ---
> Scott Gomez


Don't forget the Norden bomb sight was a mechanical analog computer. 
The ancient Greeks even managed to make a gear driven analog computer to
predict the location of the planets.  There really is very little new
under the sun.

Jerry Liles


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