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Hero999 said:Analogue computers the oldest computers and are still occasionally used for high speed integration and differentiation and other functions that are easy with analogue component but hard for micros.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogue_computer
CheapSlider said:Perhaps a surprising thing was that Lyons tea shops were pioneers in computing with **broken link removed**. Their Lyons Electronic Office went on to become ICL (International Computing Limited)
Nigel Goodwin said:There's a museum in Sheffield (Kelham Island http://www.sheffieldontheinternet.co.uk/kelham.html ) and they have a steam engine from a steel rolling mill - they actually run it to show you how it worked.
It's absolutely HUGE, and because you have to roll the steel while it's still hot, it's VERY fast - and it changes from full speed forwards, to full reverse, in about half a second - very scarely to watch!. Probably used in the same plants as the APE gear?.