[sdiy] Random Voltage Generation

[KHeck73 at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/13/2001 9:33:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
grichter at asapnet.net writes:


> Aiming guns then provided most of the funding for research for the next 400
> years. Initial analogue computers were mechanical, but electrical designs
> were used as quickly as possible. WWII battleships had analog gun control
> computers.
> 

The ENIAC computer (first electronic) was designed to calculate artillery 
trajectories, and was used at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. It was 
full of flip flops and decade counters, so you could probably get some 
interesting sounds out of it :). (That tube sound, too!).

On random number generation, I can't help but think that some methods 
probably have roots in gambling? 

-Karl.
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