ABSTRACT
However, the dominant issues in the debate were the comparisons of analogue and digital computing speed and the accuracy and precision of data and computation. These terms, while appearing to be overtly technical and quantitative, were in fact negotiated and subject to redefinition and reinterpretation. There was also an explicitly qualitative aspect of the debate, which stressed the interactive nature of electronic ana logue computing, its one-to-one correspondence with the rea l-world systems under study, and the "feel" and "insight" which ana logue computing gave users into the problems that they were investigating. In chapter 7, this aspect has been discussed in the context of the electronic ana logue computer's relations to engineering culture.
