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The history of computing hardware spans developments from early devices used for simple calculations to today's complex computers, encompassing advances in both analog and digital technology.
Technology, Early devices & Analog computers
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| navigation | instance of | especially in fields | 0.80 | text |
| engineering | instance of | especially in fields | 0.80 | text |
| and finance | instance of | especially in fields | 0.80 | text |
| electrical | instance of | These devices used the continuously changeable aspects of physical phenomena | 0.80 | text |
| mechanical | instance of | These devices used the continuously changeable aspects of physical phenomena | 0.80 | text |
| or hydraulic quantities to model the problem being solved | instance of | These devices used the continuously changeable aspects of physical phenomena | 0.80 | text |
| in contrast to digital computers that represented varying quantities symbolically | instance of | These devices used the continuously changeable aspects of physical phenomena | 0.80 | text |
| as their numerical values change | instance of | These devices used the continuously changeable aspects of physical phenomena | 0.80 | text |
| floating-point numbers | instance of | pioneering numerous advances | 0.80 | text |
| the Z3 | instance of | Machines | 0.80 | text |
| the Atanasoff | instance of | Machines | 0.80 | text |
| the IBM 701 | instance of | and many of the ideas behind its design were incorporated in subsequent commercial products | 0.80 | text |
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