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    Episode 172 - Analog/Hybrid

    Advent of Computing · Dec 15, 2025 · 1 h 05 min
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    In 1945 the first electronic digital computers sparked to life. Number crunching was instantly changed forever! The perfect technology had arrived, and there was never even a competition, right? Well, not so much. The simple fact is that computers sucked for decades. Digital machines have all kinds of inherent pitfalls. There was another entire lineage of computers that existed in the shadow of…

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