Edited: Seriously? You won't even let me edit the title after 30 seconds? Fuck off Facepunch.
[b]Mechanical Calculator Calculates Square Roots[/b]
Feels a little steampunk, but forgiven since all the components are functional.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI8luQnyM9A[/media]
Really needs the button labels done with Letraset though.
Highly authentic with the rotary dial, nixies and bell alarm.
It boggles my mind that he actually implemented IEEE 32-bit floating point on this.
Relay logic is actually really cool, this guy has loads of videos on it.
After I watched this I ended up spending two hours watching a documentary on the history of computers. Bugs in computers are called bugs because in 1947 a technician removed a moth from a relay in the Harvard Mark 2 and taped it in their notebook, writing "first actual bug found". Learn something new every day I guess.
[QUOTE=haloguy234;47691756]After I watched this I ended up spending two hours watching a documentary on the history of computers. Bugs in computers are called bugs because in 1947 a technician removed a moth from a relay in the Harvard Mark 2 and taped it in their notebook, writing "first actual bug found". Learn something new every day I guess.[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure it was called bug before that, that's why it's written as "First Actual bug found" rather than "Found a bug" or words to that effect.
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