Gregory's ServerA book idea: “Life before software.” All of the amazing mechanical and electromechanical solutions to what today would be software: Old pinball machines, Backspace on a Selectric, tons of a/v stuff, Linotype, Comptometer, phone relays, probably a million other things. Beautiful drawings and great stories.
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       All kinds of analog calculators from the humble slide rule to the Bendix Central Air Data Computer, stopping in the way to admire tide-predicting machines and gun directors. Sound synthesizers made out of oscillators and filters. The camera lucida and the blink comparator. Holmberg's lamp-based integrator for gravitational force between many galaxies. By which I mean, yes, do it and I'll buy it and recommend it. |
@mwichary I’d buy it.