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**etdgxcnc** · 03-30-2011, 02:52 AM

Dude, if you didn't punch a number in a given column, the machine treated it as a zero.
The world was analog. Machines were precise and 100% accurate -- unlike today's world, where computer chip makers routinely sacrifice computational accuracy for energy efficiency, lower cost, etc.

Are you seriously trying to suggest that machine is better than a computer, Jrabbit?

Wait so the 8 numbers are like the 8-digits on a calculator and if I wanted to type in 345,959, I would skip 2 columns, then type the numbers one in each column?

03-30-2011, 02:52 AM	#13
etdgxcnc Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 431 Senior Member	Dude, if you didn't punch a number in a given column, the machine treated it as a zero. The world was analog. Machines were precise and 100% accurate -- unlike today's world, where computer chip makers routinely sacrifice computational accuracy for energy efficiency, lower cost, etc. Are you seriously trying to suggest that machine is better than a computer, Jrabbit? Wait so the 8 numbers are like the 8-digits on a calculator and if I wanted to type in 345,959, I would skip 2 columns, then type the numbers one in each column?
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