Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/03/12/beautiful-photos-of-beautiful.html
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Interesting that some of these are analog computers, which are nothing like what people think of today when they use the word “computer.”
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There’s just something reassuring about reel-to-reels.
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Just needs a teletype for the UI.
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Oh YES!
Seeing that beauty at the top makes me think of this, a sad loss to us all.
Plus, all those analogue computers? Look like synths. Yes. More of them.
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Where’s the card reader?
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They pretty much are synths.
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Or, modular synthesizers are the only area where analogue computing has survived.
I would love some solid historical research on how during the Cold war, the Eastern block put an emphasis on analogue computing and -automation, like in “cybernetics”, and were very good at it, but fell behind in the digital world. Besides not having a free market to correct things, a vague guess of mine is that they had a very academic approach, and “real mathematicians” had to formulate their problems exclusively in terms of differential equations…?
Also, I’d love to see those photographs in a resolution where you can actually read the labels on the buttons dials and thingies … 
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