Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml to Technology@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 6 months agoVladimir Lukyanov’s Water Computerwww.amusingplanet.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down10
arrow-up19arrow-down1external-linkVladimir Lukyanov’s Water Computerwww.amusingplanet.comImnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml to Technology@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square2fedilink
minus-squarerelay@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoThis makes me think of the glooper that Hubert made in Terry Pratchett’s “making money”. I think this is where he came up with the idea.
minus-squarerelay@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-26 months agonvm looked it up. https://wiki.lspace.org/Glooper Apparently in 1949 in Brittain they made an economics computer called “Phillips Economics Computer”, but I’m sure that the scientists building the Phillips Economics computer might have taken notes from the soviets.
This makes me think of the glooper that Hubert made in Terry Pratchett’s “making money”. I think this is where he came up with the idea.
nvm looked it up.
https://wiki.lspace.org/Glooper
Apparently in 1949 in Brittain they made an economics computer called “Phillips Economics Computer”, but I’m sure that the scientists building the Phillips Economics computer might have taken notes from the soviets.