Cable Crossing: Analogue Computing

Cable Crossing 33 (19 April 2025) Analogue computing [~16:00] – In this Cable Crossing we review what was (and is) digital computing, which unlike modern computers, which work with data in the form of 0s and 1s, use mechanical, electrical or hydraulic systems to represent continuous values. Some of these machines go back many centuries in antiquity: The mechanism of Anticytera (II century BC), which calculated dates, the movement of planets, ecl…