Analogue Computer knowhow?

[Toby Paddock]

Matthew S. Padden said on October 15, 1997 :

>	I just rescued an Electronic Associates EAI-180 analogue computer from the 
>jaws of the waster disposers. ...
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Nice rescue.  I've never seen a real analog computer in person or know how to use one, but I would like to find one.  They just sound like hours of ... well, maybe fun isn't the word.  Seems like it could be a very complex cv source.  Some years ago, there was a Nova show on chaos.  They showed a couple guys using one set up for a Lorenz attractor running a storage scope in XY.  I think it's also called the Lorenz butterfly, kind of a double spiral thing in 3d.  They plug in a few different values of C and slow it way down.  I later found the equations and did it in basic.  But it just isn't the same as doing it on a REAL ANALOG COMPUTER.  Sorry, I'm rambling. Anyway, it just seems like it could be something magic.  Best of luck with it.

Hoping this finds you,
Toby