RE: Hey old people

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Larry Seltzer wrote:

> > > Hmmm. Is that anything like a 'carbon-based' computer?  ;-)
>
> If they made it out of carbon. There are mechanical, non-electronic

Not necessarily mechanical. The ones I made were electrical.

> computers. You can think of an old-fashioned adding machine or cash register

Actually, both adding machines and cash registers are digital, not 
analogue.

> as one of them. I believe a very large mechanical computer still controls
> certain parts of the Panama Canal
>
> Larry Seltzer
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