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by ds9 4398 days ago
My first thought was, wow, they could have had computers based on sets of these connected in different ways, as logic circuits. As I recall from the Stephenson version, Turing and co. were using something similar in the analog days.
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Yup it's definitely possible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidics