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To: TomOnTheRun

Electronics can be seen as mechanical devices as well. They open and close “valves” that stop electron flow.


133 posted on 09/01/2009 8:51:26 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary

I have no problem thinking of mechanical computers as computers. But they aren’t modern computers. They aren’t digital. They have no memory as such. There are all sorts of computations they are unable to process.


135 posted on 09/01/2009 8:53:52 AM PDT by TomOnTheRun
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