I have sometimes wondered if we shouldn't bring back a modern version of an analog computer. Does that make sense? Maybe it could be a solution to some ugly calculus-intensive problem like in a ...

Early computers could perform fairly complex calculations just by arranging a few analog circuits. By choosing appropriate resistor and capacitor values, arithmetic summers, integrators, and ...

Reason Magazine has a nice review of a book having images from various vintage computers. It is not online yet. Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers is from Chronicle Books up in San ...

The scientists who invented the computer describe it as a new computing paradigm. Microsoft researchers developed a prototype analog optical computer (AOC) that can perform some tasks that an AI might ...

It’s podcast time again, and this time around Elliot and Dan took a grand tour through the week’s best and brightest hacks. We checked out an old-school analog cell phone that went digital with style, ...

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.