Episode 86 - Fluidic Computing
Advent of Computing
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Water and Fluid Based Computers
This episode, we're going to be diving into a computing technology that's obscure, strange and outside the well defined, turring complete realm. We're talking about water and fluid based computers. These computers store numbers as volumes of water. That is far cooler than one's zeros. It's possible to perform mathematical operations on these vats of fluid using pumps, pipes and valves. As far as automatic look, no furt equations can literally be modelled as the flow of a fluid through pipes.
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