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

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75 points by rsecora 2 months ago · 4 comments

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java-man 2 months ago

Ken's blog is an amazing read!

nxobject 2 months ago

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".

grishka 2 months ago

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

  • lambdaone a month ago

    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

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