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The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing | WIRED

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Computers have been digital for half a century. Why would anyone want to resurrect the clunkers of yesteryear?

Let's Get Physical How to Love Tech Again I Saw God in a Chip Factory The Never-Ending Fight to Repair The Future Is Analog Now Reading Who’s Watching the Watchers? Weapons of Gas Disruption Save this story Save this story When old tech dies, it usually stays dead. No one expects rotary phones or adding machines to come crawling back from oblivion. Floppy diskettes, VHS tapes, cathode-ray tubes—they shall rest in peace. Likewise, we won’t see old analog computers in data centers anytime soon. They were monstrous beasts: difficult to program, expensive to maintain, and limited in accuracy. Or s

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