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Real Computer technology from the late 40s and 50s : Computers for Rapture : Tubes from Minervas Den. Unfortunately Tube technology computers aren't anywhere near as fast (or compact enough) to perform anything like the processing any kind of simple AI requires. Even your simple smartphone exceeds what the old Tube computers did by several magnitudes. Much Older Stuff : . . . .

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rdfs:comment	Real Computer technology from the late 40s and 50s : Computers for Rapture : Tubes from Minervas Den. Unfortunately Tube technology computers aren't anywhere near as fast (or compact enough) to perform anything like the processing any kind of simple AI requires. Even your simple smartphone exceeds what the old Tube computers did by several magnitudes. Much Older Stuff : . . . .
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abstract	Real Computer technology from the late 40s and 50s : Computers for Rapture : Tubes from Minervas Den. Unfortunately Tube technology computers aren't anywhere near as fast (or compact enough) to perform anything like the processing any kind of simple AI requires. Even your simple smartphone exceeds what the old Tube computers did by several magnitudes. Early robots used various mechanical (and later simple electric) mechanisms to perform their function. Think of your thermostat as a simple robot - it has a feed back mechanism which maintains a temperature between a proscribed adjustable (programmable) range. For more complex operations such mechanisms can get terribly complicated and have to grow faster in detail than the complexity they perform. Mechanical devices (largely analog) have to be manually tuned and adjusted and constantly maintained, which forces them eventually into being ineffective solutions. Robots STILL require some mechanical devices, but having a digital computer, with its precision much more controllable, doing complex decisions and guiding operations sidesteps much inefficiency. More complex control decisions can be carried out without as steep an increase in required mechanism to implement that programmed 'intelligence'. Plugboard used to program first generation computers. These Systems (including second generation computers about the size of a large desk) usually processed punchcards for simple office accounting operations. That whole Board is swappable allowing changing of programs (patterns of the data wires connecting the different functional sections of the processors). An Analog (mechanical) gun fire control computer for a warship (contemporary with Rapture's era). SO, were the early 'automatic' Bathyspheres supposed to have this inside them ??? Not likely possible assuming they could navigate in real time (something hard even TODAY to do). One of the big (real world) Mainframe Company's transistor circuitry. Replaceable modules many times smaller than the earlier 'tube' systems. There appears to be only 4 Transistors, but that's the equivalent of 4 typical Vacuum Tubes. Quite a bit less space and less power required. Much Older Stuff : . . . .

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