Analogue Alternative: The Electronic Analogue Computer in Britain and the USA, 1930-1975

by James S. Small

From the late 1940s to the 1970s, analogue technology was seen as a genuine alternative to the digital computer, and the two competing approaches ran parallel with each other. The Analogue Alternative describes and analyzes the development, commercialization and ultimate decline of the electronic analogue computer in the USA and Britain.

278 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000