In a computer there are many A/D converters that put analog into digital. This signal is what is usually then led into an op amp which in the right configuration can be designed into an integrator or differentiator which is then used to solve differential equations.
The super computer is a massively parallel digital computer.
You would find a digital to analog conversion taking place when you have a monitor with a VGA connection plugged into the computer. The computer would then have to convert digital signals into analog signals so the monitor could comprehend the data it is given.
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An analog computer is any computer that represents its data in the form of continuously variable signals instead of the discontinuous encoded symbols used by digital computers.
That is it. All known computers can be put in one of those categories. Some may argue that a neural net computer (like the human brain) defines a fourth type of computer, but even that really is a hybrid.
Mechanical ones were built as far back as 100BC. The Bush Differential Analyzer was a large programmable electromechanical analog computer built starting in 1929. The famous Norden Bombsight of WW2 was an electromechanical analog computer designed in the 1930s and built through much of the 1950s, when electronic analog computer bombsights replaced it. Electronic ones were built from the 1930s through the 1970s.
The MIT differential analyzer, an analog computer.
Absolutely, but those are called analog computers and operate very differently than the way digital computers do.Electronic analog computers long predate electronic digital computers and until the invention of the microprocessor were almost always less expensive than electronic digital computers. In some cases hybrid computers were built composed of a digital computer, an analog computer, and converter circuits so that data could be transferred back and forth between the two computing sections of the machine.The most common type of electronic analog computer was the electronic differential analyzer, but there are many other types that have been built for solving specific classes of problems (e.g. electronic harmonic analyzers, electronic finite element analyzers) via electronic analog means.
Never, because it did not preexist its use by humans. The electronic computer (both digital & analog) was invented.
Uncertain, but sometime in the early 1950s when an off the shelf electronic analog computer was interfaced to an electronic digital computer.
Included in this industry are digital computers, analog computers, and hybrid digital/analog computers.
Mechanical differential analyzers.Electronic differential analyzers.Linear equation solvers.Harmonic analyzers.Polynomial equation solvers.Differential equation solvers.True analogs (electrolytic tanks, membrane analogies, photo-elastic models)Electrical mesh finite element analyzers.Special purpose slide rules.Planimeters.Integraphs.etc.
E. N. Roots has written: 'An introduction to basic analog computer concepts' -- subject(s): Electronic analog computers
H. Alan Mantooth has written: 'Modeling with an analog hardware description language' -- subject(s): Computer simulation, Computer hardware description languages, Electronic analog computers
What do you mean by kinds?Kind of usage:BusinessScientificGeneral purposeSupercomputerServerKind of size:MainframeMinicomputerMicrocomputerEmbeddedHandheldKind of technology:ElectromechanicalVacuum tubeTransistorMagneticIntegrated CircuitKind of processing:AnalogDigitalHybrid (mixed Analog/Digital)Digital Differential Analyzer ("analog" style computer built in digital)Hybrid (mixed Analog/DDA/Digital)Kind of architecture:Basic Fetch-ExecutePipelinedMicroprogrammedCISC/RISCSuperscaler
Notebook Computer MicroComputer Superpower Computer There is still more that's all i can remember from keyboad Mini Computer Digital Computer Analougue computer Mainframe computer
That depends on your definition of true.Electronic - ABC (but this wasn't programmable)Programmable - Harvard Mark I (but this wasn't electronic)General purpose - Analytical Engine (mechanical and never built)Are Analog computers acceptable? - Bush differential analyzerCommercial product - UNIVAC I or LEO Ietc.