[VicPiMakers Projects] The Analog Thing -posted by Deid

[Murray Strome]

I remember doing lots of things with analogue computers, before I started working with digital ones. Although it was not my project, at NRC, NAE, Flight Research, one of the projects was to use an analogue computer mounted on the skids of an old Bell helicopter which could be programmed so that the helicopter could behave like any fixed-wing aircraft within the Bell's flight capabilities. One of these was a Piper Cub, so you could take off, fly around and land as if it were that simple to fly aircraft. Flying the helicopter directly was pretty difficult in comparison. 



From: "stan" <stan at savinkoff.com> 
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Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2022 12:39:17 PM 
Subject: Re: [VicPiMakers Projects] The Analog Thing -posted by Deid 



I've been intrigued by analog computers ever since I first started reading about quantum mechanics. Digital computers are limited to 2 values, off & on, Analog has infinite values between off & on (off, a little bit on, a little bit more on, a little bit more on, ... on! Just like in quantum mechanics. I guess if/when we can build analog memory devices where one "bit" could have theoretically infinite values with better than 4% error we can build AI machines that would be scary as hell. Great idea to discuss over a lot of beer & wings :-)> 



On 2022-04-03 5:35 p.m., James Briante wrote: 



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