The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962(righto.com)
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The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962
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Ken's blog is an amazing read!
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".
"Transfluxor" sounds like something straight out of science fiction.
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
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfluxor