[Worldbuilding] Divergent, retro and other 'not of this world' Computers and Software

[panton41]

Keep in mind there were (and are) chip-based analog computers so it's not just gears and cams and vacuum tubes. The F-16A and F-14A had chip-based analog computers (both mated with digital computers) and the SID chip (sound chip) on the Commodore 64 included analog circuits. All analog really means in that the input and processing is based on a curved waveform rather than on-off.

For that matter "fuzzy logic" is an attempt to bring to digital computing some of the abilities of analog computers. Varying levels of "maybe" are useful in lots of places.