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.”
There’s just something reassuring about reel-to-reels.
Just needs a teletype for the UI.
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.
Where’s the card reader?
They pretty much are synths.
Like “the Glooper”
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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