<nettime> Engineered Electronics analog computing

[John Hopkins <jhopkins@neoscenes.net>]

Say nettimers -- is there anyone out there (or could anyone suggest an expert or 
hobbyist or forum) who might be able to input into the process of restoring (and 
eventually selling) a vintage vacume-tube-based (analog) computing device that I 
have -- it's probably a primitive industrial loop-control unit with two racks of 
15 tube flip-flops along with a rack of pulse (signal) controllers and such. It 
was produced by a military-industrial company Engineered Electronics, Inc. in 
Southern California (and related to the (George) Philbrick company, an MIT WWII 
Rt. 128 spin-off)

The technology approximates the IBM SAGE device -- with modular plug-in 
circuit-boards -- popular from the mid-1950s until they were phased out in the 
early 1960s, replaced by smaller and more energy efficient transistorized devices.

Any input would be welcome! I can supply photos for anyone interested.

Cheers,
John
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Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD
grounded on a granite batholith
twitter: @neoscenes
http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/
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