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70-Year-Old Computer that runs on water

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http://www.wired.com/2014/11/tech-time-warp-week-70-year-old-computer-runs-water/

 

But can it run Crisis 3?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I don't know why this is tech news.

Its a piece of tech and its in the news so...

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Relevant or not to this forum, I find it interesting.  It reminds me of Ponder Stibbon's computer "HEX".

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I always theorized how to get something like this to work... Never in any detail, but now I know it's a real thing :o

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...computer? I didn't know there were computers back then...

You... didn't pass intro to computer science did you? xD

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...computer? I didn't know there were computers back then...

there were computers almost 100 years old back. But ppl didn't use them for gaming, you know

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there were computers almost 100 years old back. But ppl didn't use them for gaming, you know

Just because i´m a Gamer doesn't mean i think that Computer = Gaming PC

I´m not that out of the loop.

I was thinking more of PC´s rather then Computers in general when i wrote that.

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I always theorized how to get something like this to work... Never in any detail, but now I know it's a real thing :o

Computers are nothing but transistors arranged in specific circuitry. Transistors are basically on-off switches. You can achieve the same result using any type of switch, so it's not a surprise that hydraulics was used. 

 

Before transistors were used, computers used relays (another name for switch) and vacuum tubes. 

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There's always the ancient cosmic engine designed by the Chinese in the Song Dynasty that could measure time and calculate the position of planets that ran on the gravitational potential energy of water.

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http://www.wired.com/2014/11/tech-time-warp-week-70-year-old-computer-runs-water/

 

But can it run Crisis 3?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:P

But can you piss off with that overused meme?

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Wasn't there also an mechanical computer that was used in WW2 or WW1 ? it was used to decyrpt messages and the inventor was British, if someone knows the thing I'm talking about give me it's name. 

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But can you piss off with that overused meme?

Yo comedown relax bro relax.

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Wasn't there also an mechanical computer that was used in WW2 or WW1 ? it was used to decyrpt messages and the inventor was British, if someone knows the thing I'm talking about give me it's name. 

they used it to decrypt enigma messages iirc :)

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they used it to decrypt enigma messages iirc :)

The name?? also Jeremy Clarkson made a documentary about it.

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The name?? also Jeremy Clarkson made a documentary about it.

no idea...

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no idea...

Thanks.

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You... didn't pass intro to computer science did you? xD

My school doesn't even have that class and I knew computers were around back then. But I guess my school make up for that by being one of the top performing arts schools in California

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Oh, they used this on TV in a programme about how rich someone is and how money works. I thought this came in the sixties, not seventy years ago.

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The name?? also Jeremy Clarkson made a documentary about it.

I think it's called Colossus.

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