This is very cool. Looks like it came right out of a sci-fi film. [Link]"It's the first transistor-based differential equation analyzer, from 1959. And it's Polish." They'll nod in befuddlement and ask if it can play Spacewar, which of course it can't.More pictures here. [Link]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 at the Museum of Technology (Muzeum Techniki) in Warsaw, Poland.
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