Emmeline Pankhurst has come to symbolize the fight for female suffrage in Britain and around the world – although some historians consider the militancy of the suffragette movement may have hindered the eventual granting of the vote for women.

Analog computing, which was the predominant form of high-performance computing well into the 1970s, has largely been forgotten since today’s stored program digital computers took over. But the time is ripe to change this.