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The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962

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What would you say is the first microcomputer? 1 The Apple I from 1976? The Altair 8800 from 1974? Perhaps the lesser-known Micral N (1973...
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Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 5: motor/tachometers

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The Bendix Central Air Data Computer (CADC) is an electromechanical analog computer that uses gears and cams for its mathematics. It was a k...
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Reverse-engineering an analog Bendix air data computer: part 4, the Mach section

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In the 1950s, many fighter planes used the Bendix Central Air Data Computer (CADC) to compute airspeed, Mach number, and other "...
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