Fluidic computer ?
Wolram, could this be something like what you were origionally asking about ?
http://americanhistory.si.edu/scienceservice/057001.htm
This looks like it could be described as a computing device ... :-p
I wish I could get my hands on this wee beastie.
Moore's Law - some randomisation.
Would it be fair to say that transport, power generation and ball-point pens are "technologies" which could not keep pace with moore's law ?
Remember this 'law' was nothing but a mid-60's observation until the press blew it out of all proportion (as the press...
The bit of info I've gathered so far seems to suggest that fluidics came along just too late for its own good - the mid sixties. Solid state integrated circuits were just starting to be developed for a 'mass market' so logic was rapidly becoming cheaper and easier with integrated circuits than...
Wolram
I have been searching for info but with little success !
Typical links worth looking at are ...
http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/coanda.htm
http://fluid.power.net/techbriefs/hanghzau/4_33.pdf
http://www.iitb.ac.in/~insight/issues/new/vol4iss2/fluidics.htm
The effect you describe...
I followed the Omega link but it appears to me that the manufacturers are trying to bamboozle me with science! I find little useable information here, only 'screen clutter'. However...
On the first page of their "introduction to practical temperature measurements" is a table listing merits of...
on an exponential curve? surely you refer to the indication system (thermocouple and indicator), the pair may have linearity limits?
Are we confusing accuracy with resolution?
Every instrument is inaccurate ? only the magnitude of the error varies.
If you want the best accuracy then you...
I have a computer here that uses an RGB monitor, separate leads for each primary colour (red,green, blue) as the old BBC computers did/do.
Sometimes I swap the leads around, I won't say which way, you don't need to know.
Now when the computer tries to show a blue screen it could be blue but it...
Wolram,
Clue us in then ... if you already know of air logic in control systems, how complex must a logic scheme be before you class it as a 'computer'?
Could you tell us more of the system(s) you worked on; is it fluidics (Coanda, jet destruction etc.) or clunky solenoid valve-type stuff? I...