[HN Gopher] A brief history of liquid computers (2019)
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A brief history of liquid computers (2019)
Author : jsnell
Score : 13 points
Date : 2022-02-26 19:49 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| rland wrote:
| _> They do not need an electricity or any other artificial power
| source and can work just under gravity. This makes liquid
| computers invincible to electro-magnetic fields and fault
| tolerant (this is why some components from fluidic logic devices
| from the 1960s are still used in nuclear reactor control systems
| [187-189] and fighter jets [190-192])._
|
| This was interesting. I really thought these things were just a
| relic.
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