electromechanical
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- a of or relating to or involving an electrically operated mechanical device
- They relied on electromechanical on-off switches called relays, which physically opened and closed like the old Morse code keys.
- Indeed, the first modern digital computer completed by Bell Labs scientists in 1939 employed electromechanical switches called relays, which opened and closed like an old .
- At Harvard, large, clattering electromechanical computers in IBM's Mark series also did wartime calculations.