Analog computing uses continuous signals rather than binary code, making it capable of solving problems that push digital ...

We have to wonder, if digital computers didn’t work out, what the state of the art would be today in analog computing. After all, we had an analog laptop in 1959. Sort of.

Sure, these days they can. Yet analog computers have been around since the 1950s, and Spice has only been around for 25 years, meaning the heyday of analog computing lasted well over 20 years.

This is part 1 of a 4 part series on analog computing. I first joined George A. Philbrick Researches back in 1961, when Philbrick was doing some of the advanced analog computing stuff in the industry.

Analog computers have been around in some form for a very long time. One very obvious place they were used was in military vehicles. While submarine fire computers and the Norden bombsight get all ...

The first of those analogue computers is said to have been the Chinese "south-pointing chariot", which emerged in the first milennium BC. As its name suggested, it had a pointer mounted on it that ...

The Antikythera Analog Computer Estimated to be at least 2,000 years old and discovered in 1901, this is the largest gear (5.5") in the analog device found in the Antikythera Roman-era shipwreck.

Analog computers now just one step from digital Work from McKelvey School of Engineering may help usher in Date: December 9, 2021 Source: Washington University in St. Louis Summary: Engineers have ...

"Analog hardware devices are particularly well suited for performing biological simulations efficiently, but they're typically challenging to manually program," says Sara Achour, a graduate student in ...