At the last vcf here in California a fellow, I forget the name, brought in two tables that connected together, could generate a damped sine wave. It used mostly Manco erector like parts. It had some really great 0 backlash torque multipliers. They had to be finely tuned so as to have almost 0 load on the integrating disk. WW2 fire control computers were used on US battle ships. They had to compensate for things like coriolis effects, mass, distance and charge. Dwight
________________________________ From: Eric Smith via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2024 5:53 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Cc: Eric Smith <space...@gmail.com> Subject: [cctalk] Re: the 1968 how to build a working digital computer On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 8:08 PM Steve Lewis via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > What I meant was that in the title of the book they use "digital computer" > and I wonder if there was ever a book describing a mechanical "analog > computer" - and what they might even look like. > I haven't looked for a book, but if you'll settle for Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_analyser
