This is just cool!

[SuperStockAndy]

Sounds like you were born a hundred years too late. You would probably have loved churning your own butter and weaving your own cloth...

I wasn't born 100 years too late, I was born 30 years too late.

Edited October 8, 2011 by Andy C.

[charlie8575]

Though you could argue the Model A does have a computer....

Sure, most people think of a 'computer' as being electronic, but there were mechanical computers long before electronic ones. A computer is a programmable device designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. It could be argued a carburetor does just such an operation- meters a given amount of fuel to the engine. So, depending on how loosely you use the term, you could argue the Model A has at least one computer on it, albeit a mechanical one.

A very interesting argument, Chuck, and not a bad one, either.

Charlie Larkin

[SuperStockAndy]

^Ditto. Never thought of carburetors like computers. What about transmissions?

[Harry P.]

I think calling a carburetor a "computer" is reeeeeeeally a stretch.

Most people would define a a computer as a device that involves electronics.

com·put·er [kuhm-pyoo-ter]

noun 1. Also called processor. An electronic device designed to accept data, perform prescribed mathematical and/or logical operations at high speed, and display the results of these operations.

If we go with Chuck's argument, then my fingers are a computer...

[Rob Hall]

Interesting pursuit this guy is doing. Personally, I prefer to stay with vehicles made in this century..I like the reliablity, safety and amenities of modern cars...

[peter31a]

Well Harry, if you use them to count with perhaps they are.......

[charlie8575]

Well Harry, if you use them to count with perhaps they are.......

Brilliant response *applause.*

Charlie Larkin