Talk:Timeline of computing hardware before 1950

message: Why are these tables much much wider than 100%? -- Marj 05:47 Sep 14, 2002 (UTC)
Something is wrong with our software: if the table requests "width=100%" then it will be too wide. Removing that request fixes it. The bug has already been reported. --Axel
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Is it just me or does this sound like a rather absurd statement:
"Its main memory stored data as a series of acoustic pulses in 5 foot long tubes filled with mercury."
My knowledge of physics suggests that storing data as acoustic pulses in mercury is not plausible, but hey what do I know. --Tzuhou 19:12 Mar 4, 2003 (UTC)
It's true.  The tubes were originally for radar, from what I've read.  A transducer was at one end, and it basically acted as an echo chamber.  Send out a tone, and you get it back a set period of time, (not long,) after.  Do you find it stranger that a television tube could be used as a memory device?  And RAM at that. 67.207.228.102 01:32, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
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message: The use of the word "Indian" in the first section is ambiguous, is that a nickname? cohesion | talk 19:04, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
Also, it states the first use of the Abacus at around 750 BC.  The Abacus page states that the earliest use was 2400 BC.  Could someone please verify which of this is correct and alter the other? The Jade Knight 03:27, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  750 BCE - 1799CE 

message: Hi all
I have removed the Nazi sign from the flags and replaced with standard German ones.
The history shows that work on the Z1 Z2 etc (see here) was carried out with private funding, and, when Zuse was drafted into the army the work stopped only to be continued when he returned from service.
This means that Nazi funding was not used and the references to it should be removed.
--Chaosdruid (talk) 02:04, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Please read Konrad Zuse - the part about glide bombs.  And that doesn't make him a bad person; we are (most of us) people of our time & place. 69.106.242.20 (talk) 00:48, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Why are Nazi flags used for Germany (corresponding to the flag which was official then), but the modern German flags for years like 1672 when it was not the official flag. Isn't that inconsistent? --91.4.58.11 (talk) 09:21, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Germany as a nation did not exist before 1870, I would suggest limiting flags to 1900 onwards.--TedColes (talk) 16:39, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed Nazi symbolism 

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message: I have moved the article and inserted a paragraph saying this article makes no attempt to be a timeline of computing, but rather only of hardware for computing during a time when computing was generally done without hardware, and that it omits the topic of how computing was done (which is 99.99% of the history of computing during that time). Michael Hardy (talk) 14:23, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Honesty 

message: Most entries use the past tense, but a few use the present tense. There should be a single, consistent style, and for past events, I think that it should be the past tense. --TedColes (talk) 15:50, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tense 

message: It appears that this article is a Timeline of Digital computing hardware 2000 BC-1949  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.206.162.148 (talk) 04:49, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Analog computers 

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message: There are some items in the list that, while very important, are not hardware.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 03:07, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest spliting this page to "Timeline of computer science before 1950", moving all the conceptual stuff (which is indeed important) to there. What remains here should be just anything related to a physical object or mechanism, even if possibly never implemented. Nngnna (talk) 14:55, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-hardware 

message: Memory aids such as abaci, tally sticks, chalkboards, and paper are not capable of computation and therefore not computing hardware. — Sean Brunnock (talk) 10:49, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Physical memory is computing hardware. Tally sticks and abaci are not inherently different than RAM. Both store a certain amount of digital information. The difference is that ones are designed to interface with a Human processor, and the other with an electronic one. This is not a history only of complete integrated computers. But of computing hardware.--Nngnna (talk) 12:49, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Physical memory is not computing hardware. They can't compute anything. Look at the timeline. There are no entries for hardware such as capacitors or magnetic tape. Because they can't compute anything. — Sean Brunnock (talk) 13:25, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Both the name and the previous content of the article indicate it's about computing hardware, not about computers. Memory is computing hardware. It's essential for any serious computing. In the case of human computers, the human themselves aren't hardware. So only the parts that aren't human warrent mentioning on this article.--Nngnna (talk) 09:47, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: May I suggest Wikipedia:Dispute resolution? — Sean Brunnock (talk) 11:48, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Memory aids are not computers 

message: Algorithms and mathematical concepts or techniques are not hardware. — Sean Brunnock (talk) 10:53, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Algorithms are not computers