{"id":34331,"date":"2016-03-05T02:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T07:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34331"},"modified":"2016-03-04T09:09:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T14:09:58","slug":"mechanical-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/03\/05\/mechanical-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanical computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESR posted this video on <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+EricRaymond\/posts\/TYjzGKGbaqC\" target=\"_blank\">Google+<\/a>, saying &#8220;Mind&#8230;utterly&#8230;blown. This is how computers worked before electronic gate logic.  There&#8217;s a weird beauty of mathematics made tangible about it.\ufeff&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s1i-dnAH9Y4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Uploaded on 13 Jul 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A 1953 training film for a mechanical fire control computer aboard Navy Ships. Amazing how problems of mathematical computation were solved so elegantly in &#8220;permanent&#8221; mechanical form, before microprocessors became inexpensive and commonplace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESR posted this video on Google+, saying &#8220;Mind&#8230;utterly&#8230;blown. This is how computers worked before electronic gate logic. There&#8217;s a weird beauty of mathematics made tangible about it.\ufeff&#8221; Uploaded on 13 Jul 2011 A 1953 training film for a mechanical fire control computer aboard Navy Ships. Amazing how problems of mathematical computation were solved so elegantly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,15,13],"tags":[109,30],"class_list":["post-34331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-military","category-technology","category-usa","tag-computers","tag-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8VJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34332,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34331\/revisions\/34332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}