I feel like a kid in a candy store! In many ways, the production of a mechanical analog computer is more amazing than a digital one. Instead of invisible electrons moving from bin to bin, an invisible process, in the analog computer gears, shafts, clutches, readout dials where you might have to interpolate to find the answer, are all present. The machine has to be carefully adjusted to work properly, and as the manual says, haphazardly making adjustments may result in a web of anomolies so pervasive the machine cannot be set right again.
On one level, the thing is primitive. On another level, it is a work of art with inconceivably consumate craftsmanship. I can't wait to see those photos! Thanks Gino
