The computer history section in Warsaw’s Muzeum Techniki has everything you ever wanted, except the big fresnel lens. From Retro Thing:
the first transistor-based differential equation analyzer … AKAT-1 is an analog computer. Back in the 1960s, this approach offered speed and acceptable accuracy without the complexity of digital logic.The result was a device that could solve relatively complex differential equations in real time, as long as you weren’t after precise values. Alas, time has passed it by and it now leads a life of leisure…
Gallery [via Gadget Lab and Retro Thing]
It’s… it’s so beautiful…
Dang! While we were drawing the Jetsons, they were building the Jetsons.
What’s that on the floor? Looks like some secret message tape
Uhh, digital computers have finite precision too.
The thing on the floor is Punched tape
somebody should translate what it says
I want to gut that and make the hippest synth ever.
Looks like a cross between my elementary school desk and an MCI mixer of the same era.
wasn’t that in Brazil
Re: DOWNPRESSOR
I would love to build a studio with a board looking like that…image a DAW console with fully motorized sliders…….
Anyone who would like to translate the code on the tape image on the floor of the picture should start with a Baudot reference. You’ll probably be able to determine after a few characters whether it’s in US or CCITT/ITU code -bets are on the latter.
The other teachers at my school would be jealous if I had modern computers like that stuff, rather than the standard issue public school junk we use.
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