Post APHvr4avmKn7cIVGwC by havoc@mastodon.sdf.org
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 (DIR) Post #APHvr48ZTm6eCLEcjY by tarek@mastodon.sdf.org
       2022-11-04T03:03:32Z
       
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       One of my prized collection on vintage computing. If you find one available online grab it. Also check Stan original website http://www.pc-history.org
       
 (DIR) Post #APHvr4avmKn7cIVGwC by havoc@mastodon.sdf.org
       2022-11-04T03:53:59Z
       
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       @tarek I dig analog computing as well; so much cooler than all this digital static; go wild and compute with scaled differential equations, summers & multipliers directly.
       
 (DIR) Post #APHvr553yItV7kbKu8 by tarek@mastodon.sdf.org
       2022-11-04T13:22:02Z
       
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       @havoc that is cool. How can one get started?
       
 (DIR) Post #APHvr5TsU2kAMiD9aC by havoc@mastodon.sdf.org
       2022-11-04T17:48:19Z
       
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       @tarek There's actually a crowdsourced honest-to-god Analog computer being produced now:https://the-analog-thing.org/That's if you want an actual analog computer; you can do the same types of simulations digitally with things like Simulink (obviously digitally though). I mean... if you wanted to go crazy you'd probably get a few analog blocks, lay them out with KiCad, make them at JLCPCB, and start writing it up... hmmm#analogcircuits #analogcomputer #retro #retrocomputing  #circuits
       
 (DIR) Post #APHvr62cOsX66SStjU by tarek@mastodon.sdf.org
       2022-11-04T18:24:06Z
       
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       @havoc cool !! I thought we are heading back to the invention of the MONIAC (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC), the analog computer that used fluidic logic to simulate how our economy works.
       
 (DIR) Post #APHvr6UGk4ePUDOypc by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
       2022-11-05T08:43:33Z
       
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       @tarek @havoc I'm still mad at myself over that. I was in Wellington, New Zealand, for a science-fiction convention in 2010, and the one day that I had for normal "tourist" stuff, I found myself at the Reserve Bank half an hour after it closed for the day. In the museum there they have an original hydraulic econometric computer.
       
 (DIR) Post #APIJQVEr0UPjKg2Yi0 by tarek@mastodon.sdf.org
       2022-11-05T13:07:41Z
       
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       @publius @havoc ok that sucks! Place a closed and you peak behind the door to see such gems that passed you by only 30 minutes! We will never forget similar moments! I can relate to this. Actually just a week ago I was listening to a retro computing podcast that mentions a large retro gaming exhibition in Portland. I was a week late. If only I listened to the episode a couple of days earlier when it was sitting there on my phone unread for over a month!