• A Mechanical Computer

    August 19, 2025 in Germany ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    I had heard about these mechanical computers but had never seen one until now.
    1 Overall view of computer and it had 0.17 kilobytes of memory you could write and read from.
    2 This is the number output.
    3 This is where you could enter numbers manually.
    4 This is where you could use a punch tape to enter data instead of entering the data manually.
    The computer had the blindingly quick processing speed of one hertz. Somehow I don't think you could have played Pac Man on it.
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