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1 posted on 01/25/2012 7:50:45 AM PST by fishtank
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http://www.nkj.ru/archive/articles/7033/

ВОДЯНЫЕ ВЫЧИСЛИТЕЛЬНЫЕ МАШИНЫ

2 posted on 01/25/2012 7:51:32 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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You “calculated” with plumbing.

Sounds like someone with the stomach flu

6 posted on 01/25/2012 7:54:11 AM PST by Cowman (How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
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Early FReepers used those. Had 300 baud modems.


7 posted on 01/25/2012 7:54:36 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Six months ago I was all "Go away Newt." Now I'm "Eh, he's the best we got, so 'Go Newt.'")
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Gives a whole new meaning to “I’m afraid your solution to this problem doesn’t hold water”.


9 posted on 01/25/2012 7:57:11 AM PST by Stosh
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Could you run the computer on vodka as well?


10 posted on 01/25/2012 7:57:25 AM PST by ThirdMate
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These sort of devices would have helped make wonderful fighter-jet targeting computers. Of course, they wouldn’t work as well when inverted.


14 posted on 01/25/2012 8:04:40 AM PST by Lazamataz (Norm Lenhart knows nothing about reloading.)
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check out the recreation of the Digicomp II mechanical computer there too


16 posted on 01/25/2012 8:05:22 AM PST by bigbob
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Pretty danged interesting!

“fishtank”, eh? Hmmmm.


17 posted on 01/25/2012 8:08:37 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (The only economic certainty: When it all blows up, Krugman will say we didn't spend enough.)
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Steampunk.


18 posted on 01/25/2012 8:09:05 AM PST by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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so, instead of running defrag I suppose you flush it?


21 posted on 01/25/2012 8:30:53 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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