Nick, I don't think there are any external sensors. These units are
analog simulators. They probably had a big set of patch panels that
allowed wiring the various analog elements to simulate a cars suspension
system etc. using the various log, sine and cosine etc circuits. You
would simulate a shock and spring using caps resistors and the various
amplifiers and oscillators. At least that is my limited impression of
these things.
I saw a much larger version of these analog computers that was used for
airframe testing/design. Boeing donated one to Ohio Northern
Universitie's Engineering dept. It was still in a room when I was going
to college in the early 80s. I was a faculty brat so I ran around the
University all through my childhood so I knew the University from the
late 60s to 1986. I never saw it used for anything in all those years
though. I remember a huge section of patch panels with hundreds of
jumpers going all over the place. At one time analog computers were
much more powerful and faster than any digital computers for doing
complicated simulations of physical systems. I don't know very much more
about analog computers.
Tim L.
> Fantastic... boat anchors!
>
> What on Earth would you do with them? They're missing all the external
> sensors etc.
>
> Nick
>
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