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On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 20:30:07 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>    That's a fascinating bit of tech ! Wonder why he used fluids instead
>    of electrics ? Analog electronic computing had been around for a long
>    time. Maybe ya just couldn't get enough steps into a sim with
>    electrics before there was doom from complexity and
>    error-amplification ?

Strange for that application. One of the selling points for fluidics was 
for use in environments that tend to go BOOM with stray sparks. 

https://www.larsonelectronics.com/category/1054/explosion-proof-
switchgear-controls

When you start pricing out explosion proof components you start thinking 
there might be a better way.