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Shorts COMPUTOR
« on: October 24, 2015, 03:11:27 PM »
Another little piece of Shorts history from the Flight archive, a trio of mid-1950s analogue computers ( or computor in the lingo of the time ) being used to drive a flight simulator.

November 1956

I was aware of an analogue computer being developed by Mr Marshall at Thompson's Feeds around this time but the Shorts one was new to me.

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Re: Shorts COMPUTOR
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2015, 09:32:05 AM »
Their original computer of 1953 doesn't seem to have had a name as such, but was followed-up by the SIMLAC of 1959.  And apparently a SIMLAC Minor a little later.


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