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by xen2xen1 1865 days ago
And didn't the Apollo Guidance Computer do some of it in analog?
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It had manually encoded ROM in the form of "core rope memory", which is pretty wacky, but it was a digital computer. In fact, it was the first IC computer.

You can learn way too much about it and even operate (a simulation of) one here: http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/