BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
COMPUTER SYSTEM TYPES
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Analog Computer
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Digital Computer
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Hybrid Computer
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A speedometer that shows a car’s speed by means of a dial is an analog device. The hand on that dial moves smoothly around the dial and can take any value that the car’s engine can create. In a digital device, values are represented by numbers and therefore do not have the variability of analog devices.
Detailed explanation-2: -They measure the continuous changes in physical quantity and generally render output as a reading on a dial or scale. Speedometer and mercury thermometer are examples of analogue computers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Give some famous examples of analog computers. Ans. Some examples are operational amplifiers, mechanical integrators, slide rules, tide predictors, electric integrators, etc. These are in use to solve the problems related to partial differential equations, electronic machines, and also neural networks.
Detailed explanation-4: -A car speedometer is an example of analogue representation. The pointer of the speedometer may take up any position on the scale and sweeps through every value from zero to full scale as the car accelerates from rest to full speed.
Detailed explanation-5: -Speedometer is an example of analog computer.