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analog computer
The Linotype is an analog computer. That big, smooth rotating cam set rolls on a continuum, the casting jaws squeeez and the keystroke brings down each letter along wavy, differently timed, channel. Likewise the codex splay of pages and its reading gymnastic of display is analog, "sensitive to [...:]
Published on August 07, 2009 10:15