December 27, 2005

Suitcase Brain (Aug, 1950)

It’s Small But Smart, This “Suitcase Brain”

Not much larger than a suitcase, a new electonic “brain” can handle most of the intracate problems solved by huge automatic computers, some of them almost the size of a basketball court. The small computer, called the Madida for it’s initials (magnetic drum digital differential analyzer) was designed by 31-year-old Floyd G. Steele. It is only two feed wide, four feed long and three feet high, and weighs 750 pounds. When a difficult problem is fed into the Maddida it comes up with an answer accurate to within one part in a million.

3 Comments »

  1. [...] http://blog.modernmechanix.com.....ase-brain/ [...]

    Pingback by » CĂ©rebro em uma maleta (agosto de 1950) - GlĂșon /blog — December 1, 2008 @ 5:56 pm

  2. Ahh those were the good old days, when you needed a masters degree in technology to operate a calculator.

    Comment by adam — December 14, 2009 @ 1:04 pm

  3. Just *try* getting a suitcase that size on a plane these days. Or even a train, for that matter.

    Comment by Toronto — December 14, 2009 @ 5:28 pm

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