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    An analog computer or analogue computer is a type of computation machine (computer) that uses physical phenomena such as electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic...
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  • The general purpose analog computer (GPAC) is a mathematical model of analog computers first introduced in 1941 by Claude Shannon. This model consists...
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  • transmissions. An analog synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog computer techniques to generate sound electronically. The analog television...
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    Hybrid computers are computers that exhibit features of analog computers and digital computers. The digital component normally serves as the controller...
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    Antikythera mechanism is believed to be the earliest known mechanical analog computer, according to Derek J. de Solla Price. It was designed to calculate...
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  • Scanimate is an analog computer animation (video synthesizer) system created by Lee Harrison III of Denver, Colorado. Harrison had developed its predecessor...
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    THE ANALOG THING, abbreviated THAT, is a small universal electronic analog computer produced by anabrid GmbH in Germany. Its production began in 2021...
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    learning that the government research institution's Donner Model 30 analog computer could simulate trajectories with wind resistance. He designed the game...
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    used for simple calculations to today's complex computers, encompassing advancements in both analog and digital technology. The first aids to computation...
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    source, such as a computer, must be converted to analog form if they are to be displayed on an analog monitor. As of 2007, analog inputs were more commonly...
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  • high-quality electrical components.[citation needed] Amplifier Analog computer Analog device Analog signal processing Magnetic tape Preamplifier Ferguson, Stuart;...
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    The Reeves Electronic Analog Computer (commonly shortened REAC) was a family of early analog computers produced in the United States by Reeves Instrument...
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    In electronics, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC, A/D, or A-to-D) is a system that converts an analog signal, such as a sound picked up by a microphone...
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  • hybrid of digital and analog computation that uses aperiodic electrical spikes, as opposed to the periodic voltages in a digital computer or the continuously...
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    Mischgerät design to develop the first general purpose electronic analog computer, which he used to perform 2 DOF flight simulations with examples of...
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  • Computer (Courage the Cowardly Dog), a character in the US TV series Computer (magazine), published by the IEEE Computer (occupation) Analog computer...
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  • century BC, is generally considered the earliest known mechanical analog computer, and the earliest known geared mechanism. Comparable geared devices...
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    games for his 1958 creation of Tennis for Two, the first interactive analog computer game and one of the first electronic games to use a graphical display...
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  • variable Analog device, an apparatus that operates on analog signals Analog electronics, circuits which use analog signals Analog computer, a computer that...
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    machine sold in the 1960s, calculated square roots. Mechanical computers can be either analog, using continuous or smooth mechanisms such as curved plates...
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  • A flight computer is a form of slide rule used in aviation and one of a very few analog computers in widespread use in the 21st century. Sometimes it is...
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    recursions. The Antikythera mechanism is believed to be an early mechanical analog computer. It was designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered...
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    physiological and ecological systems. When a model is run on either an analog or digital computer this is known as the process of simulation. Any number of systems...
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  • Water integrator (category Analog computers)
    Гидравлический интегратор Gidravlicheskiy integrator) was an early analog computer built in the Soviet Union in 1936 by Vladimir Sergeevich Lukyanov....
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    (Claude Shannon's idealized analog computer can only solve algebraic differential equations, while a digital computer can solve some transcendental...
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    An analog synthesizer (British English: analogue synthesiser) is a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog signals to generate sound electronically...
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  • process the digitized signal directly. Analog computer Analog filters (especially voltage-controlled filters) Analog signal processing Automatic gain control...
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    The Torpedo Data Computer (TDC) was an early electromechanical analog computer used for torpedo fire-control on American submarines during World War II...
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    digital experimental model of a computer using 100 vacuum tubes in 1942, but it was lost at the end of the war. An analog computer was built by the rocket scientist...
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  • 1970s, Whitney had abandoned his analog computer in favor of faster, digital processes. He taught the first computer graphics class at UCLA in 1972. The...
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