@MAX: On the ANALOG COMPUTER. Some of the participants may call
me crazy, but I ventuyre to say, that there is still a reason to
use analog computers. Picture this scenario, where the engineer
in charge of power generation research, is studying some fancy
self-adaptive control system for a group of scatteredsychronous
machines. The straight control solution today, no doubt will be
digital. However, between sampling times of the A/D & D/A
conversions, the synbc. generators are in "open loop" and
therefore lprone to instability and/or deviation from the
reference signals. In my master thesis, I used the digital
computer to do all the fancy controls, but before I plugged it
to the actual generation system, I plugged it to the analog
computer where the actual process was simulated almost exactly
how it is in real life. How would I have done it in this hybrid
fashion, if not for the old nanalog Telefunken? Re: How
Computers Work... Don't suppose this would include info
regarding home computers? I come from a marke