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

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1/21/1970

7 days ago

by rsecora

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java-man

Ken's blog is an amazing read!

4 days ago

nxobject

I imagine the civilian equivalent in size and structure would be a PDP-8/S (bit-serial, still discrete logic?) But DEC material from that time simply calls it a "small-scale computer".

3 days ago

grishka

"Transfluxor" sounds like something straight out of science fiction.

3 days ago

lambdaone

There's not much information about transfluxors available, although a patent for them goes into quite a lot of technical detail, and is referenced in the Wikipedia article.[0] If anyone knows more about this, the Wikipedia article is definitely in need of expansion:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfluxor

2 days ago