Car computer

Technically any four stroke gasoline engine is a mechanical computer as its has a cam shaft that drives valves that are timed to do a specific program of opening and closing at controlled times.

All computers run programs – mechanical computers use cam shafts while electronic computers use programs stored in some form of electronic memory. Outside of internal combustion engines, cam shafts are increasingly rare and even inside of modern cars cam shafts don’t really exist in the traditional way.

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