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From: lsheldon@cup.portal.com (Laurence Larry Sheldon)
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Subject: Re: Questions about the history of computing...
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Somewhere between the Job and Jobs there was some fascinating computing
going on that hardly ever gets talked about (or written about) except
when I talk or write--analog 'puting.

The first 'puters I worked on were mechanical analogs, where all the
math functions were in gears, cams, levers, and all sorts of wonderful
stuff.  

Then there were the electro-mechanical and electronic analogs--when
machines really started to be quick.

That was when machines were _MACINES_ .

Anybody remeber what an amplidyne is?