"But take away the fancy GPS shells and the AGS, and its digital fire control system are no more accurate than mechanical analog technology that is nearly a century old." Yeah, and take away the fancy ...

A computer that processes analog data is known as an analog computer. Analog computers store information in physical quantities in a continuous format and use measurements to perform computation.

So my buddy analog guru Eric Schlaepfer found a neat series of US Navy videos about their fire-control computers used before tubes and op-amps did the calculations. Mechanical engineers are sure to ...

Before the era of digital electronic computers, mechanical analog computers were found everywhere. From the relative simplicity of bomb sights to the complexity of fire control computers on 1940s ...

In the mid 1960's, an undergraduate friend invited me along to a lab where he had to run some “programs” on an analog computer. That sounded interesting. He set up his program with resistors and ...

Today, most of what we think of as a computer uses digital technology. But that wasn’t always the case. From slide rules to mechanical fire solution computers to electronic analog computers, there ...

A new study shows that metamaterials can be designed to do "photonic calculus" as a light wave goes through them. A light wave, when described in terms of space and time, has a profile that can be ...

An analog computer is a system that provides information in continuous form. These computers can only represent physical quantities such as pressure, weight, voltage pressure, speed, and more.

There are two types of keyboards—analog and digital. Analog is mostly found in musical instruments, where the weight placed on a key often defines amplitude. Digital ones are the keys most often found ...

Very well researched and educational article - just by reading and watching the embedded clips I now know how a mechanical computer works and also a bit about fire control. I visited the HMS Belfast ...

At one time a scientist or engineer trying to solve a tough problem with electronic computation had the choice of an analog computer, a digital computer, or both together in a hybrid configuration.