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But the press at the time heralded it as a "Giant Brain" since it boasted speeds a thousand times faster than previous analog computers.

But the press at the time heralded it as a "Giant Brain" since it boasted speeds a thousand times faster than previous analog computers.

Preceding those portions are chapters covering infrastructural topics: the genesis and growth of RAND and its Computer Sciences Department, with particular attention to key individuals; acquisition of early computing equipment, from the Reeves Electronic Analog Computer in the late 1940s to the JOHNNIAC digital computer in the early 1950s; and expansion over time of RAND's computing facilities at the corporation's campus in Santa Monica, California.

The armillary was created by the Greeks, and was useful as a teaching tool and as an analog computer for solving various astronomical problems to a crude degree of accuracy.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 8 DAN SANDIN, FIVE-MINUTE ROMP THROUGH THE IP, 1973 Sandin's film looks like a mystical ceremony, revealing the possibilities offered by the new-media artist's invention: an analog computer optimized for processing video information.

By 1950, IBM began selling small analog computers to the industrial world.

Andrews' first analog computer consisted of cables, transistors and diodes harvested from phone company garbage and his dad's Lionel train repair shop.