{"id":27734,"date":"2014-11-29T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=27734"},"modified":"2014-11-28T16:05:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T22:05:51","slug":"weekend-read-machines-and-water-can-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/27734-weekend-read-machines-and-water-can-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Read: Machines and Water Can Mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21076\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/lr_owcLOGOweb2.jpg\" alt=\"OWC\" width=\"280\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/lr_owcLOGOweb2.jpg 280w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/lr_owcLOGOweb2-190x75.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/>Earlier this week, OWC Brian K. showed us how to <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/27698-calibrate-and-exercise-your-battery-for-better-health-run-times\">properly care for our Apple laptop batteries<\/a>. But believe it or not, years before we could run our sophisticated laptops solely on battery power, computers were able to function powered by\u2026 water?<\/p>\n<p>Wired took readers on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/11\/tech-time-warp-week-70-year-old-computer-runs-water\/\">a trip back in time<\/a> with a video that demonstrates a machine called the MONIAC, originally built in 1949. MONIAC uses hydraulics to analyze \u2013 naturally \u2013 economic data. 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